Christie Ma, RTC

• Christie's Rates

  15 min Phone Consultation
  No Cost

  Individual Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Open to discussion
  Standard: $160
  Generous: $165+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Open to discussion
  Standard: $230
  Generous: $235+
  
  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 10:00am - 4:00pm (Virtual)

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

  • Wednesday 3:00pm - 7:00pm (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

  • 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 counsellor and art therapist who is in the process of completing their training at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. They are a non-binary, queer, and multiethnic Hong Kong-Canadian settler living 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’s healing philosophy envisions global and collective liberation from systems of oppression. As a visual and performance artist, they engage the arts as a way to access and tangibly contend with trauma, feelings, and experiences held in our bodies. They seek to integrate somatic movement, expressive arts and body-mind work into their practice to safely explore taking up space on one’s own terms.

Christie is passionate about anti-oppressive and decolonial care work for neurodivergent QTIBIPoC, diasporic/displaced folx, and survivors of violence. They practice through an intersectional and transnational feminist lens and incorporate trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and person-centred approaches. They have experience working with themes of identity, trauma, anxiety, depression, survivors of sexual and intimate partner 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 honors your 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.