Know Your Therapist
I’m Anthea Lai, RP. I’m the founder of Know Me Well, offering strength-based, experiential counselling psychotherapy to help people find their own strength and transformative healing since 2021.
I am a licensed Registered Psychotherapist practitioner (Independent Practice) under the College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario.
(CRPO #17021). I can support individuals living in Ontario and British Columbia for counselling psychotherapy in fluent English and Cantonese.
I am pursuing Level 3 of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy AEDP for Certification (Total 3 levels), a relational, strength-based and emotionally-focused therapy that is best to overcome old negative patterns, low view of self, trauma, anxiety, shame, depression and relationship wounds.
I also continuously develop and integrate different therapeutic approaches like Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT Level 1), Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT, Solutions Focused Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Somatic Therapy as necessary.
I graduated from the Western University, Richard Ivey School of Business in Bachelors Honors Business Administration and the University of Toronto, Knox College of Masters of PsychoSpiritual Studies (MPS) in Psychotherapy & Spiritual Care. I enjoy alpine skiing, traveling, pottery-making and food adventures. I am a wife, sister and mother of 2 children.
Ethos & Approach
Offering Person-Centred Curiosity
I value diversity in culture, race, spirituality, gender and resiliency, as I seek to be curious in everyone’s unique life experiences and challenges in a non-judgment way.
Using Relational Healing Experiences for Trauma
I use attachment-based, experiential psychotherapy to process old traumatic wounds and bring unconscious relational patterns into awareness so that you can make better decisions. I am excited about these evidence-based techniques because they help promote new brain neural pathways for lasting healing and change.
Relating to Corporate Business Pressures
My many decades of business and people management within the Healthcare, Teleco, Energy and Tech sectors equip me to understand and help high achievers within workplace corporate settings to navigate through toxic cultures, stressful work environments and work-life balance.
Believing in Healthy Families
As a wife, mother, sister, and child, I am passionate about building healthy individuals into healthy families. I have an Asian heritage and appreciate how to overcome cultural clashes between family and societal dynamics. I am also a co-founder of MotherlyCare, which offers postpartum services tailored for new parents to be physically and emotionally ready for their new little ones, right from the get-go.
Integrating Spiritual Health for Well-Rounded Care
When welcomed, I incorporate spiritual health into traditional counselling psychotherapy to nurture our spiritual strengths (i.e. what gives us hope and resilience) and heal from spiritual distresses (i.e. hurts stemming from religious institutions, reason for suffering). Spiritual health is defined by exploring our belief systems about our life purpose and moral compass in relation to nature, the universe, God, Creator, and Higher Powers.