MEET Jessie (She/Her)
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I am a therapist who holds a compassionate and grounded container for healing. I am licensed as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) through the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. I hold a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Adler University, where my thesis explored what helps and hinders immigrants and children of immigrants in accessing counselling. Since completing my degree, I have continued my learning through trauma integration and liberation-focused trainings.
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Certifications
• Feminist Supervision is for Everyone with Peak Resilience Courses 1 and 2 (Nov 2025) • TheraPsil: Fundamentals of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Ingrid Pacey & Jane (Sept 2023) • Sacred Boundaries with Dr. Jennifer Mullan (Jan 2023) • Psychedelics in Therapy Summit (Aug 2022) • Queering Mental Health 2022 (May 2022) • Intermediate LENS Training: Level 2 (April 2022) • Ethical Dilemmas in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation by Kathy Steele & Dr. Dolores Mosquera (Aug 2021) • Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) (Aug 2021) • Working with Parts in Dissociative Disorders: A Practical Guide for Trauma Therapists with Dr Dolores Mosquera (May 2021) • DBT Skills with Marsha Linehan (Mar 2021) • Foundations of the LENS Training (Mar 2021) • Suicide Prevention Crisis Worker Certification (Apr 2020) • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Training (Mar 2019) • Opiod Overdose Response Training (Nov 2018) • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1: Bridging the Couple Chasm (Dec 2017)
For the last decade, I have been deeply committed to my own healing, sitting in the client’s seat with holistic healers and wisdom keepers. This journey has taught me that we can only take clients as deep as we have gone ourselves. I work in reverence to Dharti Matha (Earth Mother), my benevolent ancestors from India, and the ancestors of the Coast Salish Peoples whose territories I live and work on. I draw from the gifts of my lineage in the yoga and embodiment support I offer. Outside of work, my partner and I cherish time with our two beloved doggos. I also enjoy creativity, yoga and embodiment, reading, and exploring the unceded Coast Salish Islands.
I Hold a Sacred Container for Trauma Integration
I use the pronouns she/we and identify as a queer South Asian woman who is deeply connected to all living beings. I practice from a place of openness, humility, and cultural curiosity. We each hold cultural heterogeneity, and we experience our intersections of oppression and privilege differently. I sit with you in solidarity, attuning to your lived experience and worldview.
As a trauma-integrative counsellor, I honour the holistic mind–body–physiology connection. Trauma may arise from sudden or cumulative stressors that overwhelm our capacity to cope. It can manifest as anxiety, anger, numbness, low self-worth, brain fog, PTSD or complex PTSD, dissociation, or memory challenges. It may also appear through patterns such as people-pleasing, self-sabotage, shame, self-harm, or perfectionism. I support clients in accessing their Inner Healing Wisdom, reclaiming themselves, and integrating the parts that once helped them survive.
Trauma work is grief work. I hold a steady, sacred container for exploring shadows, building capacity for embodiment, and meeting pain one step at a time. I am also trained in psychedelic integration and support those ready to awaken, expand, and reconnect with the gifts of their lineage.
With eight years of experience in the mental health field, I walk alongside clients as they embody their power. I offer evidence-informed interventions tailored to who you are and what you desire for your life. I sit with clients as they grieve, remember, and reconnect with themselves and their safe supports, because healing happens in values-aligned community.
I also supervise student counsellors so that we can provide accessible counselling to those without extended health benefits.