About Diane
I believe that every person has a story worth understanding. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, navigating relationship challenges, healing from past trauma, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, therapy can be a place to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and move toward a life that feels more authentic and fulfilling.
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I spent over a decade working in healthcare research, developing programs that improved access to care for underserved and marginalized communities. Throughout that work, I was continually drawn to the people behind the research—their resilience, their struggles, and the stories that shaped who they are. That curiosity eventually led me to psychotherapy.
As the daughter of immigrant parents, I understand how culture, family expectations, and intergenerational experiences can shape our identity, relationships, and sense of self. My own journey has deepened my appreciation for the complexities of belonging, self-worth, healing from past wounds, and learning to care for ourselves with greater compassion. As a BIPOC therapist in an intercultural marriage and a mother of three (including twins), I also understand the realities of balancing relationships, parenting, work, and personal well-being.
Clients often describe me as warm, genuine, curious, and easy to talk to. My goal is to create a space where you feel safe, accepted, and never judged. Together, we'll explore what's keeping you stuck, build on your existing strengths, and work toward meaningful, lasting change.
I work with individuals and couples experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, stress, self-esteem concerns, parenting difficulties, and intercultural relationship issues. My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and tailored to your unique needs. I integrate evidence-based approaches including Brainspotting, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
When I'm not in the therapy room, you'll often find me running local trails, exploring farmers' markets with my family, spending time in nature, listening to podcasts, or diving into the latest research in psychology and personal growth. I believe healing happens not only in therapy but also through the small moments of connection, curiosity, and joy we cultivate in everyday life.
If you're ready to take the next step, I'd be honoured to walk alongside you. I invite you to book a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can explore whether we're the right fit for your journey.
Who I Work Best With
I tend to work best with:
Clients who are self-reflective, open to learning and understanding themselves.
Clients who want to learn to sit with some discomfort while exploring some unconscious core beliefs and challenge them.
Clients seeking me: women’s issues, parents of multiples, career women, young professionals, couples and intercultural couples, couples with intimacy issues and trauma, individuals seeking deeper healing and other modalities beyond talk therapy, like Brainspotting.
The conversations I find myself having again and again
Breaking generational patterns, healing, finding meaning in life, life transitions, making sense of relationships, life purpose, life and personal values, finding balance, authenticity, getting unstuck from past patterns and core beliefs, relearning and rewiring parts of self while coming to understand and love self as a whole.
What gives me hope
The bravery and courage of clients who have experienced their trauma and continue to show up for themselves, courage to step into what is unfamiliar, trust in me as their therapist to walk alongside them. My own healing journey has also taught me that growth is a continuous process, healing and growth are possible, and we must define for ourselves what that means.
What I wish more people knew about mental health, healing, relationships, identity, parenting, grief, or life in general.
I wish more people knew that the patterns they struggle with today didn’t appear out of nowhere. We are all shaped by our histories, relationships, families, cultures, and experiences.
Understanding where our patterns come from isn’t about blaming the past. It’s about creating enough awareness that we have a choice in how we move forward. That’s where healing begins.
As a Brainspotting therapist, I continue to be fascinated by how the human mind and body hold our stories. We often think healing happens through insight alone, but so much of our experience lives beneath conscious awareness.
I’m continually humbled by the mind and body’s capacity to adapt, protect, and ultimately heal when given the opportunity and support to do so. I have been privileged to have witnessed some really beautiful, intense, and remarkable Brainspotting sessions.
Modalities
Specialties
What aspects of being human keep drawing your curiosity and attention?
I often think about the stories people carry and how much courage it takes to rewrite them.
I think about how patterns get passed through families and generations, often without intention. I’m particularly interested in the tension between belonging and authenticity.
Many people learn early in life that they need to adapt, perform, or hide parts of themselves to maintain connection with important people. I’m curious about what happens when we begin reclaiming those parts of ourselves and discover that true belonging doesn’t require self-abandonment, and how we can learn to be self-reverent and let go of our desires and need to be viewed a certain way.
I am also fascinated by grief, not just grief after death, but grief associated with unmet needs, changing identities, life transitions, and relationships that never became what we hoped they would be.
Education
Languages
What misconceptions about therapy do you often challenge?
A lot of people have a misconception about what therapy is supposed to be for and what growth and healing mean. A lot of people have expectations or a timeline. Part of my work is to help them slow down. I am a big proponent of slowing down. Even in my own life, it has helped to provide clarity, calmness, and more self-trust.
In couples therapy, couples come oftentimes hoping I fix their partner. I am there to help figure out what’s not working in the relationship, what the dynamic or pattern is, and help the couple figure out how to change to have a different outcome that they want.
What principles guide your work as a therapist?
My values are grounded in being trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, relational, and culturally humble. I’m committed to doing my own inner work, examining bias, power, and privilege, so I can show up with curiosity, compassion, and care.
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