Jessamine Liu
Student Counsellor
(she/her/hers)
In-Person and Virtual Sessions
Jessamine is accepting new clients to her waitlist for January 2025!
Please email us at connect@collective-healing.ca to connect with Jessamine.
My name is Jessamine (she/her) and I am a student counsellor and uninvited settler on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. I am a cisgendered, queer, first generation Filipino-Taiwanese immigrant and diasporic writer, artist, and facilitator.
My approach to therapy is 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 also believe that counselling is a bi- or multi-directional process where the client(s) and counsellor learn from and impact one another. You can expect me to be collaborative, warm, and curious.
I work with individuals and couples exploring concerns and themes around anxiety, depression, complex family dynamics, grief, identity exploration, relationship conflict, religious trauma and spiritual exploration, and navigating diasporic connection/disconnection to ancestry and culture.
I use an eclectic and integrative approach but am drawn to Narrative Therapy, Art Therapy, Internal Family Systems/ parts work, and Somatic Therapy. I hope to be able to co-create spaces to dream alongside one another, collaborate together, and foster space for BIPOC magic, ancestral wisdom, and learning from non-human kin.
Outside of counselling, I find joy in anime and manga, music, games, collaborative and parallel art-making, and community.
Jessamine’s Availability
Location: Mount Pleasant, Virtual
Days and Hours:
Thursday 8:00am - 1:45pm (Mount Pleasant or Virtual)
Fridays 2:15pm onward (Mount Pleasant or Virtual)
Practicum ends August 2025.
Jessamine Liu
Student Counsellor
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.