While growing up, I had a deep curiosity about people, their behaviour and emotions. The curiosity only deepened as I grew up and studied psychology as one of the subjects along with English literature and Philosophy. I found a lot of hope in how counselling and therapy offered people space to explore and reflect safely. It supported people, helping them build skills and tools to deepen their agency and advocate for accommodations to support their lives and relationships.

Being part of therapeutic journeys and witnessing people’s stories as they unlearn and relearn about themselves, dismantle system and norms that don’t work for them and build a life that aligns with their values, fulfilling them and bringing more ease and joy into their lives. I also enjoy the conversations and various therapeutic ways to explore hopes and dreams people have from their lives, relationships and communities.

I believe that every individual is responding to their situations in the ways that are known to them. I hope to communicate safety and care for my clients in the first session. I hope for them to experience warmth in the therapeutic alliance that allows them to slowly bring their authentic selves to the space.

Therapy is a collaborative space where you and your therapist work together to build an authentic relationship where you can experience safety in your body and emotions. It is a space where you can bring anything you would like, from challenges in life and relationships to your hopes and dreams, you can explore your values and belief systems. You can co build this space to what feels okay for you. Therapy can be heavy sometimes and it can be really light and fun as well but its a very wholesome experience once you find the therapist that feels right for you. Healing and thriving happens in collaboration, support and community with othersand not in isolation.

I believe therapy is a microcosm of the larger world, and hence therapy becomes a space to experience relational care and patterns. I wish to build a mutually caring, safe, non judgmental and authentic relationship with my clients, where there is a lot of space to learn and unlearn, to offer feedback and resources, to experience emotions together and let our bodies experience safety of being witnessed gently. My relationships with my clients are not restricted by colonial ideas of therapist client relationships, but has space for authenticity, accommodations, rupture and repair.

I have learnt a lot from my clients and from being in community with them. One of my biggest learning has been to trust in myself and others and how fierce hopefulness and dreaming makes life very fulfilling and joyous. I have also learnt that even if problems can’t be solves right away, once we expand our capacity to sit with emotions, emotional experiences become less burdening, allowing more space for other experiences to exist along with the unpleasantness of life.

Some of my strength as a counsellor comes form my training , therapy and self work. My ability to be present with my clients, hold their their emotions with compassion and care and bring lightness and ease into heavy conversation. Collaborating with my clients on figuring our resources, tools and skills that will help them are some of my strengths.

I like to nap, walk and learn some art and craft skills like sewing, crochet etc and do them for fun.

I use an eclectic approach, meaning its a mix of various approaches of therapies blended in ways that work for you. Therapy with me is not suggestive or corrective, it is work of exploration and reflection, of building and rebuilding agency and values, learning advocacy, negotiation and accountability while building accommodations to make a life that fits you instead of trying to fit into a box. My practice is trauma informed, Queer and Neurodivegent affirmative. It integrates explorative, expressive art based and body based practices.

I make my practice safe and affirmative for Queer Trans folks by keeping myself informed, aware and in solidarity with the community. As a Queer Non Binary person, a lot of safety is embodied in my stance and resistance of the hetero normative ideas that show up in our lives and the therapy room. The trust with my clients is build by showing up for the community and Queer Trans rights within and outside of therapy room.