Who I Work With.

I support Women 40+ who are navigating the many transitions they encounter in midlife, such as:

• losses/death

• getting (re)married

• late/high risk pregnancy

• relational conflicts/estrangement

• promotion/career change

• workplace interpersonal trauma

• retirement

• relocation

• (peri)menopause

• illness or injury…

 

Transitions and midlife can create a time when anxiety escalates, grief surfaces, old wounds reopen. I’ve discovered that women who seek therapy at such time are not only looking for how to manage the effects of these transitions; they are looking to outgrow their ways of being and relating the “old operating systems” such as:

• succeed externally but feel lacking or misaligned inside

• avoid visibility and hold back their authority to feel safe

• disconnect from or are unable to express important aspects of themselves: their feelings, thoughts, wants, desires

• wait for permission instead of trusting their inner knowing

• -earn belonging and prove their worth by overfunctioning and neglecting own needs

• have insight and knowledge but are unable to act on them

• .…..

 

What I offer

Many of the struggles women seek support for resonate with me because of my own lived experiences of transition and adaptation, personally and professionally. I am humbled by their willingness to be vulnerable and to trust, and inspired by their courage to shift developmentally in the architectuere of their identity!

 

In the safe and supportive space I actively create, people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, explore the “old operating system” (identity-level inner blocks) and build practices that support sustainable change at a deeper level.

 

I bring a women-centered and developmental lens to the unique growth pathway women navigate their life transitions. My work is about providing “developmental assists” (developing skills, capacities, ways of being) so the women can

• break free from core emotional patterns that keep them in survival mode to create space to reconnect with what’s most meaningful and important;

• uncover the beliefs and protective strategies that shape how they think, feel and respond so they can move forward with greater clarity, freedom and choice;

• build practices that increase somatic self-awareness and emotional steadiness to expand their internal capacity for showing up differently in life

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Fan's Background.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC with a Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA where I started my clinical counseling career in the late 1990’s.

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I am most experienced serving the workplace population - people at different points in their career - in managing life transitions to achieve personal and professional goals. In late 2024,I transitioned to private practice to specialize in women-centered psychotherapy. I bring 20+ years of professional experience in diverse settings with a combined skill set of Clinical Counselling, Employee Assistance Counselling, Career/ Leadership Assessment & Coaching and Vocational Rehabilitation Consulting. I also bring my lived experience of survival and growth in navigating earlier life adversities, medical trauma, and toxic productivity. In my leisure time, I enjoy reading, hiking, meditation, and travelling. A naturalized Canadian citizen for 20 years, I have also lived in several countries and visited many across the continents.

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