About Diane
Hello everyone, my name is Diane. I have over ten years of experience working in health care research including developing programs for under-serviced and marginalized populations. Hearing their struggles, I have always been interested in learning about people’s life stories.
I am the daughter of immigrant parents and have experience working in healthcare. My personal story includes navigating an intercultural marriage, raising multiples, including twins, and working through questions of identity, self-love, self-worth, reparenting, and past trauma. My mother has been one of my greatest teachers in connection and healing. I also bring my perspective and lived experience as a BIPOC therapist.
As a mother of three children (including twins), I also understand the challenges of parenting and finding ways to connect with our loved ones and ourselves.
My passion is to help clients feel empowered to achieve their goals, and to find more meaning and fulfilment in their lives. I utilize various therapies including brainspotting, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and emotionally focused therapy. I believe in a client-centred approach, and hold a non-judgemental, welcoming, safe space for clients to share their challenges with me.
When I’m not working, I love spending time in nature, and at Farmers’ Markets with my 3 kids. I also enjoy learning and love reading research and self-help books, engaging in psycho-education training and listening to podcasts.
Feel free to contact me for a free 15-minute consultation and for more information.
Your healing matters. I look forward to joining you on 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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