Christie Ma, RTC

• Christie's Rates

  15 min Phone Consultation
  No Cost

  Individual Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Open to discussion
  Standard: $175
  Generous: $180+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Open to discussion
  Standard: $250
  Generous: $255+
  
  Relationship Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $170
  Generous: $180+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $200
  Generous: $210+

• Christie's Availability

  Location: Virtual

  Days and Hours:

  • Monday 11:00am - 4:00pm (Virtual)

  • Tuesday 10:00am - 3:30pm (Virtual)

  • Thursday 10:00am - 3:00pm (Virtual)

• Approaches in Therapy

  • Intersectional & Transnational Feminism

  • Anti-Oppressive

  • Culturally-Sensitive

  • Trauma-Informed

  • Client-Centered

  • Art Therapy

  • Internal Family Systems/Parts Work

  • Cultural Body/Breathwork

  • Somatic

  • Relational

  • Narrative

• Licensures and Degrees

  • Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists

  • Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy, Vancouver Art Therapy Institute

  • Bachelor of Arts in Feminist and Gender Studies

• Selected Professional Training

  • Heart, Politics, and Healing: An Introduction to Generative Somatics’ Methodology - Fayza Bundalli

  • Integrative Somatic Parts Work: Levels 1, 2, 3 Certificate - Frances D Booth, via The Embody Lab

  • Unpacking Barriers to Support Queer & Trans Survivors of Sexual Violence - Ivan Leonce

  • Tending to Anti-Asian Racialized Trauma Through Decolonial, Collective Healing - Melody Li

  • Introduction to Decolonize the Heart & Mind - Dr. Tone Rawlings

  • Decarcerating Care: Laying the Foundations for Liberated Practice - The Institute for the Development of Human Arts

  • The 7 Circles of Wellness - Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins, via Well for Culture & Native Wellness Institute

  • Decolonising the Body - Kim Loliya, via Black Psychotherapy & Moving For Minds

  • Connecting with Your Body after Sexual Trauma - Sonalee Rashatwar, via Ampersand Sexual Violence Resource Centre

Bio

Christie is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and Art Therapist specialising in trauma-informed, culturally-conscious care for neurodivergent and gender-creative BIPOC. They are a non-binary, queer, multiethnic AuDHD fourth-generation Hong Kong-Canadian settler living and working on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Christie grew up in Hong Kong, and has lived in the UK and US as well.

Christie integrates somatic work, expressive arts, and body-mind attunement into their practice as a way to access and attend to the feelings and experiences held in our bodies. As a multidisciplinary artist and poet decolonising what it means to heal, they hold safely explore taking up space on one’s own terms.

Christie's practice centres anti-oppressive and decolonial care work for neurodivergent QTIBIPoC, diasporic/displaced folx, and survivors of violence - intergenerational and situational. They have experience working with themes of identity, trauma, anxiety, depression, sexual and relational violence, and suicidal ideation.

Christie enjoys strength and mobility training, forests by the ocean, cooking without recipes, and dancing to moody music playlists. They seek to connect with you where you are at, and offer a collaborative therapeutic experience that honours your process, pace, and most aligned ways of knowing.

Christie Ma

(they/them/theirs)
RTC

Virtual Sessions

Christie is currently accepting new clients!

If you are interested in connecting with Christie, please contact christie@collective-healing.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.