I believe healing begins when we feel safe enough to be fully seen and heard. There is something deeply powerful about being witnessed in the parts of ourselves we have spent years trying to hide, minimize, or carry alone. At Breaking Cycles Therapy, I hope to offer that kind of space—a place where you can arrive as you are, without judgment or having to have all the answers.

My passion for this work is both personal and professional.

As a second-generation Tamil-Canadian, I grew up watching my parents build a new life in Canada after arriving here as refugees. I witnessed their strength, sacrifices, and the ways they carried the weight of what came before them while creating something different for their family. Their story shaped how I understand resilience, family, culture, survival, and the ways experiences can move across generations.

My own relationship with grief has also profoundly shaped me. I have had the privilege of experiencing therapy myself. During one of the most difficult seasons of my life, therapy gave me a place to make sense of my grief and hold parts of myself I did not always know how to carry. It changed how I understood myself, connected with others, and experienced the world.

Therapy taught me that healing does not mean forgetting what happened or leaving our stories behind. Sometimes, healing means learning to carry our stories differently. It means making space for grief while also making room for joy, connection, hope, and a life beyond what happened to us.

For more than 10 years, I have worked alongside people navigating gender-based violence, mental health challenges, trauma, crisis, grief, and other complex life experiences. I am a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with a Master of Social Work, and I currently work at the University of Toronto supporting survivors of sexual violence. My work has also included supporting youth and developing trauma-informed programs and supports for immigrant communities across Ontario.

Over the years, I have come to understand that our struggles rarely exist in isolation. They are shaped by our families, relationships, culture, identities, communities, and the systems we move through. For many of us, particularly those from racialized and immigrant families, love and responsibility can become intertwined with silence, sacrifice, people-pleasing, or putting ourselves last. Sometimes we inherit ways of surviving that once protected the people who came before us, but no longer serve who we are becoming. This is where my passion for breaking cycles comes from.

My approach is collaborative, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed. I am LGBTQ+ affirming and committed to creating a culturally sensitive, inclusive space where people of all identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences feel respected, understood, and supported. I believe you are the expert in your own life. I am also completing training in somatic therapy, which has deepened my understanding of how our experiences can live not only in our thoughts and memories, but also in our bodies and nervous systems.

Whether you are healing from childhood trauma, family violence, grief, pregnancy or infant loss, relationship challenges, intergenerational patterns, or simply feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, you deserve a space where your experiences can be explored with care.

Breaking cycles does not mean rejecting where we come from. It means understanding our stories, honouring what helped us survive, and choosing what we want to carry forward—and what we are ready to leave behind. You do not have to do that work alone. It would be an honour to sit with you in your story, witness your becoming, and support you as you find your way back to yourself.