Jessamine Liu

• Jessamine's Rates

  15 min Phone Consultation
  No Cost

  Individual Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: $85
  Standard: $130
  Generous: $135+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: $120
  Standard: $180
  Generous: $185+

  Relationship Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: $130
  Standard: $180
  Generous: $185+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: $165
  Standard: $230
  Generous: $235+

  Hormone Readiness Assessments
  Two 50-minute sessions: $200-300 per assessment

• Jessamine's Availability

  Location: Mount Pleasant, Virtual

  Days and Hours:

  • Thursday 9:00am - 2:00pm (Virtual or Mount Pleasant upon request)

  • Fridays 2:00pm onward (Virtual or Mount Pleasant upon request)

• Selected Professional Training

  • Generative Somatics I with Fayza Bundalli

  • Radical Mental Health First Aid with Oumou Sylla

  • Somatic Therapy 101 (with a focus on working with queer & trans clients) with Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik

  • SW 101: Demystifying Sex Work and Working in Solidarity with PACE Society

  • Trans Care BC trainings:

    • Caring for patients undergoing gender-affirming surgery

    • Gender-Affirming Relational Practice

    • Gender-Affirming Sexual Healthcare: Pleasure, Desire, & Sexual Expression

Bio

Hi! My name is Jessamine (she/her) and I am a pre-licensed counsellor and uninvited settler on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. I am a cisgender, queer, first generation Filipino-Taiwanese immigrant and diasporic writer, artist, and facilitator. 

Areas of Focus

My areas of focus include but are not limited to:

• anxiety

• depression

• self-esteem

• complex family dynamics

• grief, including anticipatory grief

• identity exploration, including navigating diasporic connection/ disconnection to ancestry & culture

• exploring sexuality and gender identity

• neurodivergence

• COVID concerns

• 2SLGBTQIA+ identities, QTBIPOC identities

• relationship conflict

• navigating organizing and activism work

• repairing harm & accountability

• individual counselling & relationship counselling

Approaches & What to Expect

My approaches to counselling are intersectional, social justice-oriented, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed. I believe that experiences like healing and trauma are multi-layered, non-linear, and rarely occur in isolation to systems, communities, and the environment. (I love embodying the vibe of that Charlie Day meme of the conspiracy theory board, but in therapy!) 

I hope to be able to co-create spaces to dream alongside one another, collaborate together, and foster space for QTBIPOC magic, ancestral wisdom, and learning from non-human kin. You can expect me to be warm, collaborative, and curious.

I have an eclectic and integrated approach to therapy but am drawn to Expressive Arts Therapies, Narrative Therapy, Art Therapy, Generative Somatics and Somatic Therapy, Internal Family Systems/ parts work, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. 

Outside of counselling, I find joy in anime and manga, music, video games and board games, collaborative and parallel art-making, and community and community organizing work.

I am fully vaccinated, regularly boosted, and will wear a mask for in-person sessions. You are welcome to wear a mask, but are not required to. 

Image Description: Jessamine is centered in the photo, gently smiling with her head slightly tilted to the right. She has long black to brown ombré hair that is draped over the right shoulder. She is wearing glasses, jewelled earrings, and a white t-shirt with blue lettering. Behind her, a light coral curtain.

Jessamine Liu

(she/her/hers)
Pre-Licensed Associate Counsellor

In-Person and Virtual Sessions

Jessamine is currently accepting new clients!

If you are interested in connecting with Jessamine, please contact jessamine@expressivewellness.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.