A Bit About Me
I am of Singaporean and Malaysian heritage, though I identify as a third culture kid (TCK), having grown up in Russia, Oman, Malaysia, Singapore, and Canada. Because of this, I bring a layered, cross-cultural lens to my work. I know what it’s like to live between identities and places, to move through the world as both a majority and a minority, and to understand how meaningful it can be to find a sense of home – both within yourself and in relationship with others.
In our time together, you can expect me to show up as fully human. I’m inquisitive, playful, and encouraging at heart, so these qualities naturally shape how I practice. I believe that healing can happen through connection, and in our relationship, I’ll work to create the safety and trust needed for you to feel supported. If you’re looking for a therapist who can sit with your pain and also share laughs with you, we may be a good fit.
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Outside of work, I indulge in my lifelong love of dance, experiment with new recipes (though I can’t always promise they taste great), cherish laughter and meaningful connection with loved ones, and seek adventures in nature – whether it be hiking and camping on land, kayaking on the water, or scuba diving beneath the surface. Introspective creative expression is also a big ingredient in my life, found through poetry, music, painting, and getting lost in a good fantasy book or sci-fi film. I am very fond of travelling too and have a special place for sunsets in my heart.
“Follow your north star”
My Life Philosophies
Listed below are some of my values, or what I call “life philosophies”, that guide my life and my work as a therapist:
Honesty
I believe that being honest with ourselves is essential to living a life that feels true. For me, this means embracing all parts of who I am – including the messy, tender, and quirky bits. I understand how vulnerable it can feel to show up authentically, but I also know how isolating it can be to hide. In my work, I strive to create a space where you don’t have to perform or protect – where you can move at your own pace and be met with acceptance, not judgment. My hope is that through our relationship, you’ll feel safe enough to be fully yourself, and in doing so, begin to live in a way that sings with more openness and freedom.
Intentionality
Living with intention means choosing each step with awareness and care. It’s about waking up to the present moment and aligning your actions with what truly matters. For me, knowing my core values and using them as blueprints for how I want to live helps me feel more rooted, whole, and alive. In therapy, I hope to support you in cultivating this kind of mindful presence – so that you can move through life not on autopilot, but with clarity, choice, and a secure sense of direction. It’s a quiet and powerful thing: coming home to yourself.
Facing Fears
I’m a firm believer in the saying, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in spite of it.” In my own life, I’ve found that true expansion – growth in its fullest sense – can only happen when we dare to step beyond the boundaries we’ve set for ourselves. Bravery isn’t about being unafraid. It’s about embracing the rawness of the experience and choosing to move forward anyway. That is how adventures are made!
I remind myself of this often: by confronting what scares us, we build character, resilience, and self-trust. Whether in life or in therapy, this movement beyond the familiar is where beauty, transformation, and deep aliveness can emerge. It’s a very freeing thing to live boldly.
Dancing within Polarities
Life is full of opposing experiences – beginnings and ends, action and reflection, control and surrender, identity and togetherness, certainty and the unknown. Rather than trying to resolve these tensions, the challenge is to hold space for the full spectrum. In both my personal and professional life, I try to meet these polarities not as problems to solve, but as rhythms to move with – an ongoing dance that calls for presence, flexibility, and growth. Along the way, I often reflect on the grey areas that make us human and explore with clients the ones that resonate for them:
· You can love someone deeply and also feel anger, resentment, or even hate toward them.
· You can be a good person and still cause harm.
· You can feel grateful and miserable at the same time.
· You can want change and still fear it.
· You can forgive someone and still feel hurt.
· You can be strong and still fall apart.
· You can be healing and still have bad days.
· You can set boundaries and still care deeply.
· You can miss what wasn’t good for you.
· You can know better and still repeat a pattern.
Counting Blessings
It’s easy to get lost in the fog when life gets heavy. I try to do what I often encourage my clients to do: notice what remains good, fulfilling, or nourishing even in difficult moments. Counting blessings, seeking silver linings, naming victories – these practices truly matter. Yet, they can be challenging when society often emphasizes a narrow, one-dimensional view of love, beauty, success, happiness, strength, and more.
Try, anyway.
I like to encourage clients to discover and reconnect with their sources of strength hidden behind hardships. After all, this is something that is within our power.
Holding Your Inner Child
We all carry parts of ourselves that have longed for gentleness, love, or simply permission to be. I believe in tending to these inner parts with curiosity and compassion – relearning the value of softness in a world that so often forgets it.
I’ve found that making space for play and spontaneity reconnects us to something essential – an antidote to daily stress and struggle: delight and wonder. It becomes a vibrant celebration of living. Tending to these parts may also mean gently witnessing old pain or unmet needs and offering the care they may not have received the first time around.
In our work together, I will invite you to enliven your relationship with your inner child, welcoming healing, joy, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of possibility into your life.
