About Me
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) | BC-Based | Anti-Oppressive, Trauma-Informed Care | Bengali | South Asian
Hi, I’m Maitreyi - a bicultural, first-generation settler and Registered Clinical Counsellor dedicated to supporting your healing journey with warmth, authenticity, and deep respect for your lived experience. My own path through anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and transgenerational colonial trauma has shaped my practice, which centers your resilience, wisdom, and strengths.
I offer a collaborative, client-centered space grounded in intersectional feminism, social justice, and decolonizing frameworks. Recognizing that trauma and struggles are intertwined with systemic oppression, I work from an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed lens to help you reclaim your identity, culture, and autonomy. Together, we’ll explore your story, dissect societal narratives, and nurture your authentic self—away from dominant cultural pressures.
My approach is eclectic and personalized, blending modalities like Narrative Therapy, Client centered approach, mindfulness, and somatic techniques to meet your unique needs. Whether navigating life transitions, grief, or the impacts of marginalization, I’ll walk beside you with curiosity and empathy.
In our sessions, you’ll lead the way while I hold space for both your pain and your power. Let’s uncover the resilience already within you and build a future that aligns with your truth.
You are welcome here.
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My Approach
As humans, our feelings are the quiet guides of our lives—pointing us toward safety, connection, and authenticity. But when trauma, systemic injustice, or grief forces us to disconnect from them, we’re left stranded: anxiety hums in the background, sadness weighs us down, and frustration feels endless.
This is where I meet you. Not with a checklist or a one-size-fits-all solution, but with space—space for you to exhale, to unravel, and to reconnect with the parts of yourself that grief or injustice tried to erase. Therapy with me is a slow unfurling. We’ll follow the threads of your story at your pace, with deep care for what hurts and fierce celebration of what’s kept you going.
Together, we’ll explore how oppression lives in the body, how intergenerational whispers shape your present, and how to reclaim the emotional compass you’ve always had.
This work is messy, nonlinear, and deeply personal. Some days, we might sit with silence or sorrow. Others, we might trace resilience in places you forgot to look. Always, you’ll lead. My role? To hold the map while you steer—offering trauma-informed tools, somatic practices, or simply the steady witness so many of us never had.
Areas of Specialisation
In the past, I have worked with challenges in the following areas
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Anxiety
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Attachment
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Burnout
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Coping Skills
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Chronic Pain
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Depression
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Grief and Loss
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Immigration and Life Transitions
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Perfectionism
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Self-Compassion
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Shame
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Stress
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Trauma, Complex Trauma
Trainings & Certifications
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Somatic Experiencing - Basic
My practice draws from client centered therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, attachment theory, latest neuroscientific research and my own personal therapeutic journey. I bring a trauma-informed perspective marked by commitment to care, attunement and sensitivity.
Counselling offered in Bengali, English and Hindi
