Background

Hello, my name is Sherry, and it’s nice to meet you! I’ve had two lifelong loves: connecting with people and asking questions. I’ve always been curious about what shapes us—our relationships, identities, experiences, emotions, and the environments we move through. That curiosity has guided both my academic journey and the way I approach counselling today.

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I studied Psychology and Political Studies at Queen’s University before completing my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Western University. I also bring over five years of psychological research experience in areas including socioemotional development and behavioural addiction. Through this work, I became increasingly interested in the ways our individual experiences intersect with relationships, culture, identity, and larger social systems.

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These experiences have shaped my commitment to providing counselling that is trauma-informed, anti-racist, feminist, gender-affirming, and culturally responsive. I recognize that our struggles do not exist in isolation. The ways we understand ourselves can be deeply influenced by our families, relationships, communities, cultures, and experiences of belonging or exclusion. In therapy, I hope to create a space where all of these parts of you can be explored with curiosity rather than judgment.

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I also believe that who I am outside of the counselling room strengthens who I am as a therapist. Creativity is an important part of my life, and I love making things with my hands, whether through illustration, knitting, sewing, or my newest adventure: basket weaving. Community is equally important to me. Some of my favourite moments are spent playing board games, thrifting, laughing with the people I love, or watching an animated movie that unexpectedly leaves everyone emotional.

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These parts of my life remind me of the importance of connection, creativity, play, and joy—things that I believe can have a meaningful place in therapy, too.

 

Therapeutic Approach

When I began my journey toward becoming a counsellor, I asked myself what values I most wanted to bring into the therapy room. I kept returning to two: boldness and compassion.

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To me, boldness means having the courage to show up as you are—even when you’re still figuring out exactly who that is. Therapy doesn’t require you to have the right words, know exactly what you want, or arrive with everything neatly organized. We can begin with uncertainty, curiosity, frustration, grief, hope, or simply the feeling that something in your life needs to change.

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Compassion means meeting those experiences without judgment. Rather than asking, “What is wrong with me?” we can become curious about “What happened to me?”, “What have I learned to do to survive?”, and “What do I need now?”

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As a Queer Chinese Canadian, I also understand that identity can be layered and complex. Navigating culture, family, relationships, expectations, belonging, and authenticity can sometimes leave us feeling caught between different versions of who we are or who we are expected to be. I welcome conversations about identity and intersectionality and strive to offer a space where you do not have to minimize or explain away important parts of yourself.

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My style as a therapist is warm, compassionate, curious, and laid-back. I work from a relational perspective, meaning that we will look not only at what you are experiencing internally, but also at how your relationships, attachment experiences, family dynamics, culture, and experiences within larger systems may have shaped the way you see yourself and connect with others.

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My approach is primarily informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT). Depending on what feels most helpful for you, our sessions may involve exploring emotions, understanding relationship and attachment patterns, challenging unhelpful stories about yourself, identifying your values, developing greater self-compassion, and finding practical ways to move toward the life and relationships you want.

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Most importantly, I believe therapy can hold more than pain. There is room for laughter, celebration, playfulness, curiosity, and joy alongside the difficult conversations. Healing is not only about carrying our burdens differently—it can also be about reconnecting with the parts of ourselves and our lives that make us feel most alive.

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You don’t need to know exactly where to begin. We can figure that out together.

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My availability can be found here.