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At Radiance Counselling Clinic, I believe that everyone has the ability to lead a happy and fulfilling life. My philosophy is rooted in the belief that mental and emotional well-being are integral to overall health, and that therapy can be a powerful tool for achieving this balance.
I understand we prefer to see situations as black or w
At Radiance Counselling Clinic, I believe that everyone has the ability to lead a happy and fulfilling life. My philosophy is rooted in the belief that mental and emotional well-being are integral to overall health, and that therapy can be a powerful tool for achieving this balance.
I understand we prefer to see situations as black or white but much of life happens in the gray.
Navigating the gray can be tough, leaving you feeling trapped and alone. Driven by compassion and empathy, my philosophy is to help individuals embrace their uniqueness and heal from difficult experiences by building resilience and a positive mindset that is limitless.
I offer a variety of counselling services to meet the unique needs of my clients, including individual therapy, couples counselling, and family therapy. With an overall mission to hold space for individuals to engage in self-discovery, I offer specialized services for trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, anger management, life transiti
I offer a variety of counselling services to meet the unique needs of my clients, including individual therapy, couples counselling, and family therapy. With an overall mission to hold space for individuals to engage in self-discovery, I offer specialized services for trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, anger management, life transitions, acculturation, and grief and loss.
I provide a safe, warm, and cozy environment for our sessions where we can connect and work through your concerns.
I use a trauma-focused, client-centered approach, working collaboratively with my clients to identify their goals, and develop a customized treatment plan. I strongly emphasize building a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship.
I hold the perspective that human suffering arises when we have difficulty reconciling the difference
I use a trauma-focused, client-centered approach, working collaboratively with my clients to identify their goals, and develop a customized treatment plan. I strongly emphasize building a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship.
I hold the perspective that human suffering arises when we have difficulty reconciling the difference between our reality and our expectations, which leads to disconnection from ourselves.
By engaging in therapy, we address a range of topics that promote wellness and cultivate self-compassion.
As an RCC, my practice is focused on helping individuals, couples, and families who feel trapped and powerless, and desire to move forward on their healing journey with a positive mindset. With empathy and care, I work with adults and youth with mental health concerns stemming from childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, and relational trauma, and women who are victims of gender-based violence and sexual assault.
To support individuals as they navigate through life's complexities, I offer counselling for concerns related to self-esteem, stress management, procrastination, perfectionism, burnout, anger management, and vicarious trauma. I also provide counselling for mental health concerns that include addictions, ADHD, emotional dysregulation (BPD), grief and loss, bicultural identity crises, family problems, acculturative stress, and life transitions.
With Gottman Level 1 Training, I work with couples who are facing communication and interpersonal challenges in their relationship. I offer court-ordered therapy for anger management and respectful relationships. I also work with families experiencing inter-generational conflict due to acculturation and intercultural tension from changes in family structure and dynamics.
My approach is integrative and holistic with a culturally responsive, developmentally sensitive lens influenced by an understanding of the impact of trauma on the brain. This approach allows me to gain insight into a client’s unique developmental experiences and trauma responses. I use CBT as my main modality while drawing from compassionate inquiry, somatic experiencing, humanistic therapies, emotion-focused therapy, and DBT skills training.
For couples therapy, I use the Gottman Method to increase closeness and intimacy between a couple while aiming to address conflict productively so that both partners can embrace positivity and shared meaning together.
I offer family counselling to support families in adjusting to unexpected, traumatic, or transitional events and changes. I believe that a family is a unique social system with its own structure, dynamics, and communication patterns derived from parental values, transgenerational effects, and cultural expectations. I work with families to navigate conflict, overcome strained relational dynamics, and achieve balance in their home.
I strongly emphasize collaboration with my clients as I try to understand their narratives and explore their experiences through guided discovery. I help my clients to explore deeper emotions, thoughts, behaviours, and experiences that may be difficult to delve into on their own. I support them in unravelling their story so that they can openly talk about their concerns and gain clarity on how their situation has impacted them to bring about change when they are ready.
I am committed to tailoring therapy to the client’s needs by assessing and addressing their concerns effectively with evidence-based treatments. As a multilingual therapist, I offer therapy in English, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. Due to my unique cultural identity and rich cultural experiences, I work with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and intersectionalities. As an advocate for diversity and inclusion, my approach emphasizes a culturally responsive and anti-oppressive outlook with an aim to decolonize mental health. My clients also work across various industries which include healthcare, law enforcement, education, technology, and trades.
With validation, compassion, and trust in the therapeutic relationship, I can help individuals heal from past trauma and support them in navigating through emotional complexities and life transitions, enhancing their quality of life and well-being.
Through individual counselling, we address a range of topics such as unpacking trauma experiences, understanding the role of attachment and the neurobiology of trauma, recognizing and regulating emotions, navigating through relational discourse, recognizing the importance of self-care, and managing your overall health and wellness by cultivating self-compassion. The goal of our therapy sessions together will be to help you develop the mental fortitude needed to heal, achieve personal growth, and enhance your well-being. Working on developing self-compassion will allow you to move more easily through difficult times in the future, as wells as attain a sense of inner peace and empowerment to advocate for your well being.
The anxiety counselling services I offer are designed to help you overcome fear, stress, and anxiety. Clients are provided a supportive and non-judgmental environment where they can explore their thoughts and feelings, gain insights into their behaviour, and develop strategies to manage their anxiety. Anxiety can be debilitating and disruptive leaving an individual feeling confused, vulnerable, and frustrated. Although experiencing a certain level anxiety is natural and an adaptive response in our nervous system to keep us safe, it becomes maladaptive when in overdrive. Understanding the neurobiology behind anxiety and the events that trigger it is critical to treatment. Therapy includes a deep exploration of how anxiety developed, how it is keeping you safe, and coping strategies that may be useful to manage high levels of anxiety. Psychoeducation on the neurobiology behind the stress response provides a deep understanding of how stress impacts the nervous system. In our sessions, I will support you in exploring your thoughts, emotions such as fear, sadness, and anger as well as triggers that lead to heightened levels of anxiety. Exploring earlier experiences and trauma that may have led to the development of negative beliefs and may be fueling negative automatic thoughts can help determine the root cause of anxiety to break dysfunctional thinking patterns. When dealing with anxiety, improving one’s self-concept and self efficacy can be an empowering and liberating process
The depression counselling services I provide can help you overcome feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair. I provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your depression. Therapy focuses on identifying and breaking cognitive patterns that fuel negative thinking with an integrative and holistic approach to target physical, psychological, physiological, social, behavioural, and motivational factors that co tribute to depressive symptoms. Behavioural activation, reframing negative thinking, and engaging in healthy living can be integral to treatment.
Trauma counselling can help you overcome the effects of traumatic events. I use evidence-based techniques to help you heal from the psychological impact of trauma, including PTSD, anxiety, and dissociation. I provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your experiences and develop strategies to move forward. Therapy utilizes a 3-phase approach to establish safety and security inside and outside therapy, processing of trauma through exploration and deconstruction, and post-traumatic growth and reconnection. A trauma-focused approach integrates guided exploration, coping strategies, narrative interventions, CBT, and somatic experiencing to explore trauma, generate corrective emotional experiences, build a positive sense of self, improve self-efficacy and instill a sense of empowerment with rebuilding of trust. y. A neurobiological lens is used to understand the impact of trauma on the brain. Treatment can be combined with EMDR to process disturbing memories and negative core beliefs related to traumatic incidences.
For stress management and burnout, I can help you explore and understand how you can manage stress. I provide an empathetic and collaborative space for you to talk about your challenges so you can cope with stress in healthy ways and overcome burnout. By managing your stress and how you respond under pressure, I can support you in achieving your personal and professional goals with guidance, support, and motivation. I can help you identify your strengths, overcome obstacles, and improve your work performance and functional well-being. Stress management techniques and conflict resolution skills are delivered to help cope with stress and minimize long term impacts of stress on wellbeing. Strategies to mitigate burnout are also discussed. Emphasis is placed on self-care and self-compassion as important to tools to manage stress and draw boundaries to maintain a healthy balance between various domains of every day life.
My grief counselling services can help you cope with the loss of a loved one. I provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your feelings of grief, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your grief and move forward. Therapy focuses on identifying the form of grief or loss and helping the process of coming to terms with the loss with emotional support and compassion. My perception is that grief is a complex emotion and difficult for clients to navigate. Grief can be understood as love with nowhere to go and all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. An important aspect of grief is creating a vision for the future that is meaningful and honours the loss. Helping individuals better connect with their loss and move through related emotions such as regret, guilt, denial, anger, and sadness can help move towards acceptance of the loss.
For anger management, I can work with you to develop strategies to control your anger in healthy ways. By understanding your triggers and building awareness around how you can think, feel, and behave differently, I can help you mange your emotions and feel more regulated. I provide support to help you identify the root causes of your anger, develop coping skills, and improve your relationships with others. Treatment focus is on exploration of anger and where it is rooted as well as deep emotions that are masked by anger such as sadness, frustration, grief, guilt, and shame. Anger can often be a part of the grief process and acts as a bodyguard for pain. When one's boundaries are encroached on, anger is a natural response for self-protection. Treatment provides coping strategies to manage emotional dysregulation through mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion-focused strategies.
I offer EMDR as a treatment approach to treat various mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and intrusive memories. EMDR has been effective to reduce trauma symptoms by altering the storage of memories in your brain. Dual attention stimulation achieved by bilateral eye movements or tapping can help process traumatic memories and target negative thoughts and beliefs related to negative experiences so they are no longer distressful.
Counselling can support you to embark on a journey of self-discovery where you can unpack your experiences and explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement. I derive a sense of meaning and fulfillment in engaging in conversations that explore the significance of past experiences and their impact on one’s growth and life trajectory. This is a sphere that holds valuable potential for remediating your understanding of yourself and your purpose in life. The journey of self-discovery focuses on understanding your own identity and standing in your own truth. This is a challenging process that requires you to navigate through your thoughts, beliefs, morals, values, and difficult experiences. As you work towards removing all barriers that question your authenticity, you may uncover your own truth which may be deeply associated with a sense of purpose or simply with existing in harmony with the elements.
Our sessions are focused on building a sense of self and boosting your confidence . Building self-efficacy is a building block to developing a positive mindset which supports the generation of a positive self-concept and the capacity to access inner wisdom. Therapy focuses on building a sense of empowerment, positivity, and self-efficacy by using a CBT framework and CBT-based interventions. Reframing negative beliefs and exploring attachment wounds are an integral component of treatment. Exploring one's perception of their attributes and qualities that define them and recognizing strengths and weaknesses hrough self-reflection and awareness are integral aspects of developing a positive sense of self.
As a second-generation Canadian, I'm passionate about working with immigrants, refugees, and members of the BIPOC community. I recognize and respect their unique challenges in Canada and along life’s journey. Deeply intrigued by each individual’s intersectionality that informs their unique cultural identity and spirituality, I support individuals in sharing their struggles related to discrimination and oppression experienced due to any part of their identity and circumstances that don't fit with the majority.
Youth counselling services are designed to help young people overcome a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, and more. I use evidence-based techniques to help teens develop coping skills, improve self-esteem, and achieve greater success in school and other areas of life including peer interactions and family dynamics.
My addiction counselling services can help you overcome substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. I use a variety of evidence-based techniques to help you develop coping skills, build a support network, and achieve lasting recovery. I also provide support for family members affected by addiction. Addiction such as substance use and alcohol addiction can leave an individual feeling alone and powerless falling into the addictive behaviour patterns more and more. This can lead to the deterioration of an individual’s health and well being by disrupting relationships, daily living routines, and financial stability while compromising quality of life. Therapy for addiction helps the individual understand the motives behind their behaviour and develop a treatment plan. I can help to break these dysfunctional behavior patterns by providing a safe space and emotional support to explore the addiction. Often individuals who have substance use issues may have comorbid depression or anxiety and may find it difficult to cope with stress, grief, relational discourse, and life transitions. I can support you in breaking dysfunctional patterns in dealing with overwhelming emotions and learn healthy coping strategies to build self-efficacy, improve distress tolerance, and change negative thinking to create a positive belief system.
Counselling for individuals who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) symtpoms includes interventions from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in the form of DBT skills training which includes developing coping skills in the domains of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Individuals with BPD struggle with emotional dysregulation, impuslvity and relational distress. Treatment includes unpacking earlier experiences that may have left individuals feeling invalidated and unheard. Learning coping strategies along with psychoeducational and a safe space to address distressful experiences can help individuals take control of managing their thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
Women face issues that impact their mental health ranging from general concerns to issues specific to their intersectionality with cultural considerations, trauma experiences, and biologically-based concerns. Therapy focuses on addressing intimacy issues, trauma, complex family relationships, prenatal and postpartum concerns, and life transitions. A culturally responsive and socially just lens is used to help women navigate through unique life experiences and cultural expectations. As women navigate through interpersonal violence, gender biases, objectification, multiple roles, and systemic oppression, counselling provides a space to safely unpack their experiences and gain clarity from a nonjudgmental and anti-oppressive lens that promotes a sense of empowerment. Often reinforcing a strong sense of self and gaining clarity on decision-making can be made easier with emotional support and a space to deconstruct their narratives while respecting their worldview.
I am approved as a counsellor for the Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP). If you have experienced a crime or a sexual assault, you can apply to the BC Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP) for assistance and receive $135 coverage per session. CVAP helps victims and immediate family members to cope with negative impacts of violent crime.
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