Naomi is a sansei Japanese Canadian settler with mixed ancestry currently living and working in Squamish, BC, located on the unceded traditional territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw. Born on the West Coast, Naomi is privileged to have been raised up on the ancestral, unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) nations.

Currently, Naomi is working alongside Japanese Canadian community and intergenerational trauma, wellness, joy and healing through research, writing, and community offerings. Naomi is open to work with all walks of life, and all offerings are collaborative, anti-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, and justice-oriented to support and explore the way we carry what uniquely shapes us.   

Therapy can be a tender process and can open doors to empowered choice-making, softening, learning, and becoming un-stuck. In the therapy session, Naomi is a patient, present ally and collaborator to a person’s journey. Therapy is hard, and takes a lot of energy, work, and bravery. She honours what it takes for folks to engage in the work of therapy and is sensitive to what can show up in the process.

Naomi is informed by an Indigenous worldview of connection as medicine. As well, Land-based healing is a central part of working with whatever makes the heart heavy. Other pieces that inform her work are: ecological attachment models, the wisdom of the body, mindfulness, and intersectional feminism. She works alongside the challenges of grief, loss, relational/family struggles, and trauma; supporting individuals towards processing anger, rage, trust, life transitions, and integrating the many resources intimacy, love, rest, pleasure, joy, community-care and self-care can give.

If not outside walking, Naomi loves to cook without recipes and make something delicious out of nothing. She enjoys time with her family, playing music in a noise band, and having impromptu dance parties with her kiddo.