I believe in your healing.
Relationship Therapy
Sometimes the relationship takes on a life of its own and get stuck in cycles.
A therapist can facilitate a new way of connecting.
All consent-based relationship styles, orientations, identities, and genders are welcome.
Trauma, Anxiety, Depression
Whether childhood, acute, or systemic trauma, we all have a part that lives your life and a part that saves your life.
When they get out of sync in an extraordinary event. trauma therapy can help bring back harmony.
Liberation and Self-Worth
So if we unlearn how we got treated in childhood and by the society, set boundaries, then what?
Just getting rid of the old way leaves us in a vacuum, and we end up simply replacing them. Are you your own harshest critic?
Community, Camaraderie, Companionship
It is not a weakness or personal failing to need another person; It is a wisdom to know that you do. It is perfectly ok if you just want to come, say what you really want to say, unmask or out of closet, and be yourself for an hour.
The Activists
From the experienced advocates to the newly-awaken, it could be a struggle to go from knowing to doing and from doing to disrupting and from disrupting to deconstructing.
Having grown up an anti-fascism kid in the 70’s to an environmentalist youth in the 80’s to a Dyke in the 90’s, it is a familiar space for me. I will hold space for your process.
Who Do I Work With?
Some people seek me out for the “fresh eye” because I am different from them. Others find me for the safety of shared experience, like fighting for equity, being trans queer non-white, difficult childhood, or immigration.
Some people look for me because of my systemic, global understanding of oppression as well as my lived experience in activism.
Social media content creators might find my lived experience (35K) valuable.
People of marginalized neurotypes (aka neurodivergent, autism, ADHD, gifted, creatives) often say it is easy to talk to me and suspect I am one of them.
About Tamaki
I am Tamaki Kano (鹿野環 | they/them), RCC, CCC, MCP-AT, M.Sc. I have worked in science and research, non-profit, corporate, government, and social services prior to becoming a therapist.
I have been in various forms of activism since childhood. But eventually I realized I could not help heal the society if I couldn’t heal myself first.
Being so different in so many ways, I had a really hard time finding a therapist. I decided to become the therapist I needed.
I have diverse lived experience of the society. Living and working across several cultures, life transitions and “starting over,” playing and reffing hockey, rural and urban, systemic and interpersonal violence, fighting the systems from the inside and outside, and being out-trans nonbinary since the 70’s, to name a few.
Personal Values and Lifestyles
I would not expect you to hold the same values. I list them because they matter to some people.
I strive for universal design. I continue to wear N95 / KN95 into 2026.
I do not use any AI note-taking, automated transcription, or machine-learning. On top of data issue, I do not believe AI can ever document your life and the experience in a session the way a human can.
I stand for I/indigenous sovereignty (including Free Palestine, Africa, and Turtle Island), Black Liberation, Disability inclusion, 2SLGBTQIA+ equity, harm reduction and safe supply, housing is a human right, and Japan’s full apologies and reparations.
Approaches
I practice PCT (aka “Rogerian”), EMDR, EFCT (attachment-oriented), trauma therapy, somatic, the nervous system involvement, art therapy, DBT, and the anti-oppressive non-ableist forms of CBT. I respect all ways of healing, of which western psychology is one.
No matter how many psychologists endorse a technique and publish on it, you are the expert of whether or not it works for you. I am heavily and strictly consent-centred. I do not pressure or cheerlead to sway you.
I am strongly informed by the common factor theory. It means that the therapist is more important than the therapeutic techniques.
I actively maintain a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, land back praxis in professional, personal, and political aspects of my life.
I do not believe in “curing” autism or ADHD: the struggle comes from the lack of accommodation and understanding not from neurotypes per se. I do believe there are ways to make lives easier and more fulfilling.
Fees
I keep my fees low for all instead of sliding scale.
But I also have a limited number of half-cost spots.
Individual Therapy (60 min)
Relationship Therapy (60 min)
Peer Consult (60 min)
$150 / 60 min
$180 / 60 min
$150+GST / 60 min
Direct billing with FNHA, ICBC, Greenshield, Blue Cross (including some StudentCare), and SunLife may be available. Please inquire.
Contact
Please use the form below.
Alternatively, you can email me or book a free consult.
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Tamaki Kano, RCC, CCC 