Van is a psychologist driven by a passion for helping people heal, grow, and become antifragile in the face of adversity. She empowers individuals to deeply understand their experiences, their strengths and struggles, values and choices, equipping them with the tools and resilience to create lives enriched by meaning, fulfillment, and their authentic self-expression.

Van has experience working with a wide range of issues, including:
• Major life changes and stressors (work, home, relationships, health, finances)
• Challenges with addiction, self-harm, OCD, and eating disorders
• Experiences of trauma, grief, loss, violence, homelessness, structural discrimination and socio-economic disadvantage
• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, complex trauma, PTSD, and psychosis
• Neurodiversity, chronic pain, burnout, and health concerns

She has worked with children, teens, adults, parents, families, and carers from diverse backgrounds, providing telehealth, individual and group therapy, crisis support, suicide prevention, psychological assessments (including WISC-V and WIAT-II) and referrals. Her approach aims to be trauma-responsive and culturally curious, blending techniques and frameworks from:
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Positive Psychology, and Mindfulness
• Narrative Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Schema Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Family Therapy

Before becoming a psychologist, Van forged an extraordinary career as a lawyer, regulator, experience and service designer, award-winning entrepreneur and co-founder, design thinking expert, board director, lecturer, chief strategy and innovation officer, and customer experience transformation consultant. Today, she is called to bring this wealth of experience and insight to champion mental, emotional, and social well-being in relationships everwhere, from homes and families to schools and educational institutions, from workplaces to community spaces. With unwavering passion and purpose, she is a tireless advocate for changing the course of intergenerational trauma - from adversity and disconnection to antrigragility and belonging.