Naomi is a registered clinical counsellor (RCC) who offers a collaborative, anti-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, justice-oriented approach to support the therapy journey. Knowing that therapy can be a tender process, she works alongside clients with compassion and attentiveness to explore trauma, values, grief, structural barriers, and the way we carry what uniquely shapes us. Naomi is a Japanese Canadian settler with mixed ancestry, who is privileged to have been raised up on the ancestral, unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) nations. Currently, Naomi is working alongside Japanese Canadian community and intergenerational trauma, wellness, joy and healing through research, writing, and community offerings. Therapy can open doors to empowered choice-making, softening, learning, and becoming un-stuck. In the therapy session, Naomi is a patient, present ally and collaborator to a person’s journey. Therapy is hard, and takes a lot of energy, work, and bravery. She honours what it takes for folks to engage in the work of therapy and is sensitive to what can show up in the process. Informed by an Indigenous worldview of connection as medicine, Naomi incorporates ecological attachment models, the wisdom of the body, mindfulness, and intersectional feminism. She works alongside the challenges of grief, loss, relational/family struggles, and trauma; supporting individuals towards processing anger, rage, trust, life transitions, and integrating the many resources intimacy, love, rest, pleasure, joy, community-care and self-care can give. If not outside walking, Naomi loves to cook without recipes and make something delicious out of nothing. She enjoys family time, playing music in a noise band, and having impromptu dance parties with her spirited kiddo.
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Follow-up appointment for patients with an ICBC claim. Please note: There is no user fee for this appointment.
For new and returning clients coming in for their first Counselling session with a new ICBC claim. Please note: There is no user fee for this appointment.
Curious but unsure if counselling is for you? This complimentary consultation provides the opportunity to discuss hopes and goals for counselling and to see if it feels like a good fit. For those with new ICBC claims.
Curious but unsure if counselling is for you? This complimentary consultation provides the opportunity to discuss hopes and goals for counselling and to see if it feels like a good fit.
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