Minou Truong, MCP, CCC

Certified Clinical Counsellor

Office Hours: Tuesdays-Sundays
Types of sessions offered: Individuals, Couples; Online and In Person
Rates: $140 Individuals, $155 Couples
Languages: English, Vietnamese

First and foremost, I want to meet and connect with you as a person. Putting yourself in this position of vulnerability and openness can be so difficult, and I am honoured to be a part of your journey. I know therapy can feel intimidating or even a little weird at first — that’s normal. My job is to make it feel like a real conversation, not an interrogation. I want to be a witness and collaborator in helping you figuring out how to live in a way that actually feels like you, without all the guilt or second-guessing by providing a non-judgmental and shame-free space. This means working together to create real change, honouring you where you are at with honesty, openness and warmth and fostering a positive relationship between you and your emotions. I am especially interested in sex therapy and have some experience working in this field. I understand the difficulty of coming to terms with these taboo topics when you might not have a space to explore them in your personal life and I want to be a space where all your questions and issues are welcomed. I bring a trauma-informed, culturally humble and sex positive attitude to our work together to ensure that you’re able to fully explore and express your curiosity or concerns without judgment. I draw from my own and professional experience to address other topics as well such as: cultural identity and intergenerational experiences, life transitions and change, relationship issues, gender identity and expression, LGBTQ2IA+ affirming support and others! Let’s connect and discuss what the perfect therapy process looks like for you.
I take a lot of inspiration from narrative therapy in my work with clients and believe that you know your life better than anyone else — my role is to help you look at it from new angles and ask the questions that move things forward. I am here to collaborate and support you in your journey by creating a dedicated space for you to explore and provide thought-provoking questions for guidance, as opposed to directing the choices you should make. I also work through an anti-oppressive framework to help you connect with yourself beyond the negative cultural messaging that may have shaped (or hurt) you.

Outside of therapy, I’m a singer, actor and writer. I love creating short stories and songs in my free time and playing video games to unwind (I’m a sucker for an open world RPG but don’t hit me with Dark Souls, I’m a casual gamer at best and WILL get frustrated and rage quit). Wherever possible, I find opportunities to perform and grow both as an artist and a person.

I also want to acknowledge that who I am and where I come from shapes how I see the world and practice therapy. I am a Vietnamese queer, cis-gender woman living and learning on unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth), Stó:lō, Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples