Hiu is pronounced like “Hugh”.
Hiu uses she / they pronouns.

Hiu is a queer immigrant settler from Hong Kong in a non-disabled, straight-sized body. She approaches therapy with anti-capitalist and anti-oppressive values.

Hiu is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Somatic Attachment and Intersectional Feminist Narrative Therapist who has been practicing since 2018. She is an avid learner and participates in ongoing education and community knowledge exchange.

Hiu believes that they are the tool of their trade, and are committed to maintaining personal physical, mental, and spiritual health so that she can continuously show up as a secure figure for her clients.

(blue) herons, usually spotted as solitary creatures, roosting collectively at Stanley Park on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

bona fides

  • Master of Counselling
    Research: Therapeutic alliance – the matching process between client and therapist
    City University of Seattle

    Graduate studies in English Literature
    Research: Queer Time
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Bachelor of Arts
    English Literature, Psychology
    University of British Columbia

  • Foundations in Resiliency-informed Clinical Supervision Certificate
    Jennifer Hollinshead, City University

    Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate
    Kai Cheng Thom, Dr. Scott Lyons, and many more, The Embody Lab

    Feminist Narrative Practice Immersion Certificate
    ProChoices Community Therapy Clinic

  • EMDR Basic Training
    EMDR Consulting (EMDRIA approved)

    Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals
    Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BC Division)

    The Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma
    National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM)

    The Trauma of Racism
    NICABM

    “Do Not Harm”: Confronting Systemic Policing Practices
    Healing in Colour x Ji-Youn Kim

    The Wisdom of Trauma
    Dr. Gabor Maté x Science & Nonduality (SAND)

    Dying and Death: Conversations and Reflections
    Simon Fraser University

  • VABA Therapy Lab
    est. August 2023
    Director & Founder
    A mental health group that prioritizes building value-based matches for clients and a roster of systems- and trauma-informed practitioners who offer online counselling therapy.

    Liberate Counselling Collective
    est. July 2020
    Therapist & Co-Founder
    Hiu offers lower barrier services exclusively at LCC and currently has a waitlist.

    BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC)
    Registered member - Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)

  • Hiu works under monthly supervision with Registered Clinical Supervisors, bi-monthly peer consultation with Liberate Counselling Collective (RCC, CCC, RTC) and other colleagues. Hiu has regular counselling sessions with her therapist (RCC).

    Hiu’s professional practice is insured under Canadian law.

    As a queer person in a non-disabled, straight-sized and racialized body, Hiu offers therapeutic and consultative services with an approach that acknowledges and privileges the multiplicity of their clients.

Hiu surrounded by Noguchi lamps hanging from the ceiling at the museum.

about Room of One's Own

about Room of One's Own

The name Room of One’s Own pays homage to the writer and feminist of the 1920s, Virginia Woolf, who wrote a collection of essays titled A Room of One’s Own, on why a woman must claim her/their own space to create, physically and metaphorically; where magic happens.

It is also a reference to the idea of home: when we are at home with ourselves, we are securely attached—to our body, identities, the environment around us, and others.