You don’t know what you don’t know.

Generative exploration in ethical critique can support you in maintaining alignment and developing a practice that is grounded in justice-doing. Click below to access business consulting in Vancouver. All services are offered virtually unless otherwise specified.

Hey, I'm Abby!

(she/her) MA, RCC-ACS

I'm an avid explorer of wonder and possibility, aspirational human database for systemic awareness, co-creator with the magic that still manages to survive in this dumpster fire world, lover of all things with faces that probably shouldn’t have faces on it, and cat-reel aficionado.

• The biggest guiding force in our work together is co-creation. Instead of only asking you questions about what you would do in a particular circumstance or telling you the “right way” to move forward, we’ll explore, together, what practices can look like.
• We’ll also explore the ethics and values you want to embody, the intricacies of supporting your clients with the contextual awareness of societal systems in its current and historical iterations.
  
• Together we can create the vision of the world you want to build in your life and practice.

You don't have to do it alone.

No one taught us business practices in life, let alone grad school! (Unless you did a business or accounting degree, but I digress.) Having a thorough understanding of how your business structure and practices are impacting your work is crucial to building a sustainable practice that has space for you to prioritize your justice-oriented projects in both paid and unpaid work. As today’s systemic landscape becomes even more difficult to navigate — it can feel overwhelming when faced with decision making that has impact on not just your business but also the larger oppressive system.

This is where the intersection between business and ethics collide. By engaging in justice-oriented business consulting, you will gain both the practical skills and support in unlearning default indoctrinations of oppression to create your own practices and improve upon policies and procedures to ensure ethical decisions and actions are taken across your entire organization.

Navigating the world as a cisqueer, working-turned-middle class, half-gen, currently non-disabled, straight-sized settler from Hong Kong who lives with chronic pain and ADHD, I found my way to this work through exploring and navigating my own relational trauma through the lens of privilege and systemic oppression. (And Grey’s Anatomy, because apparently I make all my important life decisions based on TV shows). My ancestors come from roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing, and a lineage of creating sneaky practices to survive necropolitics and refugeeism.

My work from frontline victim services to clinical counsellor and then to providing clinical supervision and teaching in postgraduate programs kept me curious about what it means to be human in this world, and what it means to be well in a world that’s so unwell.

For the last decade, I've had the privilege of working with folx resisting multiple systems of oppression, which often manifests as being impacted by the criminal punishment system, addictions, and relational trauma.

Some of my business consulting experience includes: founding and running Venturous Counselling and Reflecting on Justice, a virtual community for therapists to unlearn systemic oppression together through free resources, a community membership, and various training programs. As well as co-founding and co-running Prospect Counselling, a Queer, POC-led, radical training practice that redirects proceeds from services to provide further training so that SDQTBIPOC+ communities can accessible and exceptional counselling, while funding projects for collective healing within communities. I am also part of the operations team at Healing in Colour and clinically supervise/provide business consulting to various local non-profit agencies and group practices.

Not only will we dream up a better way to approach decision making and business practice, I will also support you from a practical standpoint as a business operator myself.

From starting up and managing your team, accounting and developing business structures, to branding and design support — know that you are not alone in this work. Together, we can workshop and create through a systemic, political lens that recognizes the messiness of being complicit and how we can move forward.