About Soul Seat Psychotherapy & Wellness
Soul Seat Psychotherapy & Wellness is a Burlington-based therapy practice offering relational, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care for adults navigating anxiety, identity, family relationships, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm.
Founded on the belief that healing happens through meaningful connection, Soul Seat strives to create a space where people feel understood not only for what they struggle with, but for the experiences, cultures, and relationships that have shaped them.
Our Founder’s Note
I created Soul Seat out of a desire to practice differently — slower, more relational, and more attentive to the context that shapes a person's life. What began as a solo practice has grown into a small, intentional team, built around that same founding belief: that therapy should feel like a place where you can sit with what has shaped you, rather than rush to correct it.
The name comes from the idea that the heart is often described as the "seat of the soul" — the place where emotion, memory, and meaning live in the body. That image felt right. It points toward something internal, something that already exists in you, rather than something to be fixed from the outside.
I am the youngest daughter of Filipino immigrants and growing up as a second-generation Canadian, I became fluent early in the language of responsibility, loyalty, and quiet expectation — the kind that lives beneath the surface in families without ever being named. Strength, sacrifice, and keeping the peace can become part of your identity before you realize you've absorbed them. Over time, worth can become entangled with performance.
That experience shapes how I understand adaptation — not as pathology, but as intelligence shaped by environment, culture, and survival. Many of the people I work with have spent years being capable, steady, and strong for others. They arrive feeling exhausted, disconnected, or unsure of how to trust their own needs.
Soul Seat is a space where you do not have to perform strength. Where the parts of you that learned to carry responsibility can finally exhale. Therapy here is not rushed, not overly clinical, and not reduced to technique. It is a steady, collaborative process of understanding the patterns that once protected you — and gently expanding what feels possible now.
I built this team by intention. Each therapist at Soul Seat brings their own background, training, and lived experience to this work — and each of us shares a commitment to the kind of care that is unhurried, contextually aware, and genuinely relational.
Our Values
Relational Care
We believe healing happens in connection. Therapy is a collaborative process rooted in trust, curiosity, and genuine human relationship.
Cultural Humility
We recognize that culture, family, migration, identity, and lived experience shape how we understand ourselves and move through the world.
Anti-Oppressive & Liberation-Oriented Practice
We acknowledge that systems and social realities impact wellbeing. We are committed to creating a space that is inclusive, affirming, and responsive to diverse experiences.
We recognize that wellbeing is shaped not only by personal experiences, but also by larger social realities, including colonization, war, forced displacement, systemic oppression, and collective trauma.
Community & Belonging
Healing does not happen in isolation. We value connection, collective care, and creating spaces where people feel seen and understood.
Reflection & Growth
We remain committed to ongoing learning, accountability, and thoughtful practice as we continue to grow.
Our Vision
Soul Seat began as a solo practice. It is growing into a small collective of clinicians united by a shared commitment to relational, culturally attuned, and liberation-informed care.
We believe healing doesn't happen in isolation. The patterns people carry into therapy were shaped by something — family, culture, systems, survival. Our work honours that context, holding both the personal and the relational. We are building a team that reflects those values — clinicians who lead with curiosity and cultural humility, who understand that the ways people have adapted are not deficits to correct but responses to understand.
Our commitment remains the same: therapy that is grounded, real and not rehearsed, and deeply human — where people feel understood not only for what they struggle with, but for the strength it took to adapt in the first place.
