Dan provides a warm and calm presence to support you through various changes and challenges. He is committed to walking beside you on a collaborative therapeutic journey that can bring more ease, wholeness, and confidence to your life.

He approaches counselling and healing holistically, balancing personal transformation with interpersonal growth. Through various modalities, he supports you in uncovering unconscious beliefs and stories that might have kept you stuck unknowingly and empowers you for a renewed sense of self. These therapeutic changes are sustained with the family and cultural factors in mind, with psychoeducation and skills training as integral to making lasting changes.

One of Dan’s major offerings is addressing personal and intergenerational traumas. He has been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which taps into the body’s innate neurological capacity to reprocess traumatic memories and highlights your resilience. He is also learning Somatic Experiencing (SE), which offers a body-based alternative to trauma work. By deeply respecting the body’s capacity to reprocess, one can safely explore the residual effects of trauma in the present moment. Intergenerational difficulties like loss, persecution, abuse, and neglect may have lasting effects across the generations, which makes us repeat patterns we see our family members make. These unconscious patterns can be made clear through the modality of Family Constellation, in which Dan has received multiple trainings.

Dan offers a unique blend of personal and systemic therapeutic journeys. His unique approach is made possible by his own life experiences, such as growing up in a collectivistic culture like China, immigrating to Canada at age 12, various professional experiences (engineering, software development, education, entrepreneurship), navigating his neurodivergence in ADHD/ADD, and his experiences of facilitating and assisting in various meditation and therapeutic workshops and retreats since 2015.

“One of my core memories that eventually inspired me to be a counsellor was in 2016, when I was assisting my mentor in a 13-day intensive healing retreat. She was 68 at the time. In the last few days of the retreat, I had been worried about her health as she had been experiencing body aches from the intensity she put forth every day. On the last night, it was late. We were beyond our scheduled time. Still, she gave everyone the utmost attention even everyone is showing visibly tiredness. Someone stood to share. It was clear they were sharing a dream but from a place of hurt. My mentor leaned over slightly and asked what the best way would be to respond. While I still caught up with wanting her to take care of her health, she stood with a determined and clear stance. She spoke through her actions at that moment. Her actions said, “You Matter.” Her actions spoke, “I am here to do earnest work with people.”

Both of these messages landed deeply with me. One was the message of love, “You matter.” The other on what it means to be a good counsellor. Yes, I want to see you succeed, and I might have the right tools and be the right counsellor for you. So don’t give up yet. We can help.

Dan holds a master’s degree in counselling and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC). He is currently working on additional educational requirements towards his registration with College of Alberta Psychologists. Dan is currently accepting clients for individuals (ages ten and up), couples, and families.