Hiu Chan

Hi, I'm a neuro.psycho.somatic therapist experienced in working from an Intersectionality-focused lens with predominantly people of the Global Majority with different neurotypes, who identify as queer and have ongoing relationships with grief. As a practitioner, I privilege a person’s survival story and relationships to their agency, emotions, boundaries, and people. I'm licensed in so-called Canada and trained internationally, with foundations in Feminist Narrative Therapy, trauma-informed care, somatic attachment and EMDR therapy. My research interests lie in working alliance (what makes a relationship work), the intersections between neuroscience and spirituality, and capitalism and mental health. I value therapeutic alliance in my practice (i.e. you like the vibe of our connection and feel secure-enough in our therapeutic relationship)and I conduct both verbal check-ins and longer-form evaluation because I believe it's the #1 factor to therapeutic efficacy. I'm an immigrant, having lived mostly as a racialized person in colonial cultures (Hong Kong - Canada - Berlin - now Paris). I'm deeply committed to personal (shadow) work (I like to call it "self-excavation") through my own intergenerational, racial and relational trauma.