Life can be full of negative experiences that cause us to feel fear, anxiety, deep sadness and loneliness, yearning for love, low self-esteem, and have us question and doubt about our worth and value. You wake up feeling frustrated and trapped, and unable to have a fulfilling and purposeful life.

As a Master’s of Arts Degree in Counselling intern, we will explore your demotivation and stresses at school, dissatisfaction at work, disconnection in your relationships, confusion about life goals and direction, and lack of passion and interests, and I help you restructure your internal compass to allow you to live a happy, peaceful, meaningful, and calm existence.

I use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), an evidence-based approach, to help you identify beliefs and perspectives that may be hindering you. We will use problem-solving strategies and outside-the-box thinking to help you overcome your fears, sadness, loneliness, and frustrations. I also use Expressive Arts Therapy to help you process your thoughts and emotions that may be difficult for you to express verbally so that you can make sense of and heal your limiting life experiences in a healthy manner and make decisions and actions towards intentional living.

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Your world seems marked by disconnection, and you’re looking for a lifeline that’s tethered to something real. What you long for is genuine, caring human contact that might help you back to solid ground.

As someone who has traversed multiple cultures – a son of immigrants, a teenager and young adult who studied and worked overseas, an equal-parts believer/doubter – I relate to anyone who feels caught in-between: couples who have moved out of the comforts of certainty; parents tumbling through their kids’ stages of development; promising professionals facing professions without promise; displaced persons hurt by fractured communities or unchosen upheaval.

I believe humans need connection. Connection to and within ourselves. Connection to other living beings. And connection to broader and deeper meaning.

In our sessions, I want to help you re-discover and create anew the connections in your own story. We will listen to what your heart, mind, and body might be suggesting need repair or strengthening; we’ll identify persistent patterns that emerge from your personal and family history; and we’ll take action to get you back on the pathways that lead to positive change.

I commit to bringing to our collaboration hospitality, insight, and encouragement, as much as I can, whenever we share space together. Additional background I have enjoyed writing in some form since the time of dot matrix printers and have worked primarily with words for 20+ years – sometimes as an editor, briefly as a grad student (theological studies), earnestly in multiple leadership roles, and most recently as a communications coach and consultant for non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and authors/creatives. Recognizing that the energy in my conversations was often directed toward meaning and motivation rather than metrics and monetization, I made the vocational shift toward counselling to place at the centre of my work and words the goals I believe to be most life-giving.

My master’s degree in counselling psychology is in process at Adler University, Vancouver, with an expected completion in the fall of 2027. I am a parent, spouse, son, sibling, and friend; you are welcome in my counselling practice in all your uniqueness and social and cultural location.

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Zoe is a highly skilled practitioner as an experienced Board Certified Behaviour Analyst and has been supporting families with developmental disorders since 2014. By assisting her clients with environmental modifications and the development of functional skills, she aims to help them create positive experiences and build meaningful relationships.

Zoe decided to complement her skill set by combining the introspective insights gained from clinical counselling with the effective strategies of behaviour analysis. This integrated approach enriches allows her to offer holistic support on a deeper level.

Zoe understands that life can be challenging and unpredictable. With this in mind, she is committed to supporting those who struggle with emotional regulation and who want to live a life characterized by personal autonomy, purpose, and meaningful connections. It is important for her to provide a safe, non-judgmental, and neuro-affirming space for her clients to feel genuinely heard and understood. By joining them on this journey, Zoe hopes to empower her clients to find the courage to forge a path forward and build a life that aligns with their personal values and goals.

To meet the diverse needs of her clients, Zoe draws from a variety of therapeutic approaches, including Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Adlerian Therapy.

Zoe completed a post-graduate internship at Incourage Counselling where she was trained under the tutelage of the clinical director and founder, Nelson Szeto.

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It can be exhausting to overcome life’s challenges on your own. You might be feeling stuck and unsure of what direction to take next. Perhaps you’re looking for tools to strengthen your relationships. Or, you’re feeling lost, burnt out, and hoping to gain more clarity. You aren’t sure what would help, but you know something has to change. I believe I can help you discover ways to changing your life for the better and finding your meaning and peace again. Together, we can build insight and perspective to support meaningful change in your life. Having worked across multiple sectors (human resources, non-profit, education, technology, and law enforcement), I’ve witnessed the gap in mental health support. Having immigrated to Canada as a school-aged child, I also understand the challenges of navigating cultural identity and finding alignment between values. In our work together, we will co-create a space where you feel heard and understood.

Currently working towards my Master of Counselling degree, I utilize evidence-based approaches like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Psychodynamic Therapy to explore your thought patterns, early experiences, and the stories that shape who you are.

I believe everyone deserves a space to pause, reflect, and grow. My aim in our work together is to support you in developing deeper self-understanding, gain clarity, and move toward your goals.

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In life, we often face uncomfortable feelings and thoughts, such as excessive worrying, sadness, loneliness, powerlessness, hopelessness, and frustrations that may make it hard for you to live a wholehearted life, full of meaningful relationships and activities that feels like it fulfills your life’s purpose. I have had successful experiences supporting clients with traumatic experiences, families and parents around conflict, anxiety, depression, life and work stressors, executive functioning (i.e. ADHD), and sensory processing sensitivities.

I am dually licensed Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #24226) and Registered Occupational Therapist, I lean on my strong understanding of your sensory system and executive functionings, and integrate them with somatic-informed psychotherapy and other evidence-based treatments, such as Polyvagal theory, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy/Exposure therapy, to help teenagers, individuals, and parent-child therapy and family therapy to connect and move towards what is important to them in their lives.

I am dedicated to work hard at providing you with a safe, effective, and transformational treatment. I am committed to fostering your resilience in your journey toward healing, growth, and development into the person you can be proud of, when you look back at how far you’ve come.

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​​It’s lonely when you feel anxious, discouraged, or unsure of your place in the world — especially when you’re caught between what others expect of you and what you actually want for yourself. That kind of struggle can leave you feeling stuck, disconnected, or quietly questioning your worth, and carrying it alone only makes it heavier.

My approach is to create a space where you don’t have to carry it alone. I’ll walk alongside you as you begin to make sense of what feels heavy and what you might be ready to let go of — looking at the dissatisfying patterns in your life, the meanings you’ve given them, and how they may be holding you back. Together we’ll acknowledge your strengths, explore new possibilities, and build toward a sense of purpose and connection that feels authentic to you, rather than borrowed from someone else’s expectations.

I completed my Master of Counselling Psychology and am currently awaiting my Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designation, practicing under close clinical supervision. I draw from Adlerian Psychotherapy and evidence-based practices, which means I value your unique story, your relationships, and your life goals as much as your struggles. I bring warmth, openness, and respect into every session.

What I hope for isn’t only that you leave with new strategies, but with a deeper sense of belonging and possibility — something that stays yours well after our work together ends.

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Clinical Director - Currently Waitlisting All New Clients

While I am not currently accepting new individual clients, I have personally selected and support a team of skilled counsellors at Incourage Counselling. If you were hoping to work with me, I’d be happy to recommend an associate who may be an excellent fit for you.**

We’ll work on understanding your fears and negative stories that dominate your mind on a daily basis and then re-define how we want to live so that we can start to create the life you always desired. When we are feeling crushed by stress, indecision, scared of things not working out, unable to lead a life that we feel is meaningful, get into conflicts (or running away from conflicts) that has ripped relationships apart, and emotional dysregulation, our sessions will help you feel more grounded in your true Self, anchor into what is important to you, experience healthy and connecting relationships, and doing meaningful and purposeful work.

My therapeutic approach is grounded in Adlerian Psychotherapy, with an integration of attachment-based, trauma-healing/sensitive, sensory-based, developmental neuroscience- and evidence-based modalities with a focus on insight, relational dynamics, Inner Child work, nervous system regulation, and practical behavioural changes.

I graduated from my Master of Counselling Psychology program in 2012 from Adler University, a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#7447) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor. I am also an adjunct professor at City University and Adler University.

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Internship Beginning October 2026, contact info@incouragecounselling.ca for waitlist

Grief, loss, and betrayal rarely keep to the schedule people expect of them. You offered your best. You made the best decision you could, at the time you could make it — and things still fell apart, sometimes in silence, sometimes in ways that leave you feeling you have no right to ask for help.

Sometimes it shows up as a mind rehearsing disasters that haven’t happened yet. Sometimes as a flatness — where the things that used to matter simply don’t anymore. The people around you may say they are there for you, that it’s all right to cry or be angry — just don’t stay there too long. Come back to your normal life when you’re ready.

And then there’s the other kind: the tensing and bracing your body learned in a house where certain things were never spoken aloud, where chaos felt one wrong moment away, where nobody announced the rules but everyone obeyed them just to keep the peace. That kind of knowing gets handed down like an heirloom nobody asked for.

The truth is that life offers no formula, and no timeline, for moving through grief, loss, or betrayal. Sometimes what’s needed most is simply to be seen, to have another person help you co-regulate, to ride the waves rather than be pulled under them. By learning the language your emotions speak through your body, you can develop a new way of staying attuned to your internal signals, of creating an intentional pause, of remembering that you have a choice, even in the most difficult moments. There is a Japanese art called Kintsugi: broken pottery repaired with seams of gold, so the fracture lines become the most beautiful part of the piece — not despite the break, but because of it. I don’t believe healing means being restored to who you were before. Something happened to you. It shows. That doesn’t make you damaged. It makes you someone who has lived through something real.

I’m currently completing my Master of Counselling at City University, Vancouver campus, practicing under the supervision of the Incourage Counselling clinical team.

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