Our Team

Cynthia will be available for low fee counselling beginning in January 2025.

Cynthia is a Counselling Student Intern offering affordable phone and video counselling support to clients across British Columbia and Alberta. She enjoys supporting individuals (16+) of all genders and backgrounds.

Cynthia understands that in our lifetime, we are presented with circumstances where our psychological and emotional well-being is tested. The feeling of uncertainty that brings anxiety, depression, or the need to explore life’s meaning can leave us pondering and unsure of our way forward. Cynthia is a strong believer that everyone deserves to live with happiness and purpose, and enjoys supporting her clients to discover what it means to them to live a fulfilled life.

Cynthia’s approach focuses on healthy relationships and boundary setting, self-exploration and meaning. She brings patience, kindness, and empathy to all her clients. Her practice is rooted in creating a space that is non-judgmental, anti-oppressive, warm, and supportive where clients feel comfortable exploring and expressing themselves freely.

Cynthia has worked with individuals and families for over a decade as a Registered Nurse and Psychiatric Nurse. Her experience working with young adults, individuals, and families through the most difficult times in their lives has informed her approach to counselling. Through this experience, she understands how grief and loss is a process and how burnout can bring upon unsettling feelings, stress, and uncertainty.

She is a second-generation Southeast Asian Canadian cis woman and understands that sometimes life’s circumstances can challenge our mental and emotional well-being. She centers her practice around compassion, empathy, cultural safety, and kindness.

Cynthia offers support with:

• Anxiety

• Communication challenges

• Compassion fatigue

• Depression

• Family conflict

• Grief and loss

• Life transitions

• Parenting concerns

• Perfectionism

• Personal growth

• Professional burnout

• Self-esteem

• Stress management

• Trauma

Incorporating her time working in public healthcare, Cynthia brings a trauma-informed, and holistic lens prioritizing a person-centered approach to support her clients. She draws in theories such as existentialism, mindfulness, psychodynamic, narrative therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and solution focused approaches to name a few, while tailoring to the needs of her clients.

Cynthia is completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and Psychiatric Nursing, with a specialty in adolescent mental health, and a post graduate certificate in critical care nursing. She is a Student Member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC).

In her down time, Cynthia enjoys spending time on forest trails with her partner and canine friend.  In the winter, you can find her snowboarding and, in the summer, learning how to surf in the coastal waters of BC. She is also an avid gardener and looks forward to seasonal planting.

Our Counselling Student Intern program allows Gravitate Counselling Inc. to offer low-cost, affordable counselling to clients across Vancouver Island and the rest of BC. Counselling Student Interns are supervised by Andee Dale, a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Approved Clinical Supervisor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. Learn more about Andee on her profile page.

Rate

$50+GST per 50 minute session