Hey there!

I am Michael Cheng, and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (Reg. # 16914) practicing out of North Vancouver, BC.

I am not great at writing these things. It’s easiest to explain who I am with a general overview and why I started counselling.

I never had a sense of what i wanted to do. Living in rural working-class America, I tried to fit the mold of those around me. I became a carpenter and millwright and working in the trades made the most sense to me at the time. It was what many generations of my family did, and I thought that is what I would do for the rest of my life.

Never quite satisfied with where I was, I decided to move to Fort McMurray, Alberta to work on the Pipeline, and following a history of addictions and a catastrophic workplace injury, I had to do some soul searching with finding a meaningful career path.

Counselling was always an idea, and at that point there was finally permission given to pursue it.

The meaning I currently find in counselling is a simple message “I want to help people not waste time. We spend our lives following the expectations and messages of a society and people that do not know us, do not care about us, and are emotionally illiterate. We are told to be like everyone else while being unique, to shut up, to stop crying, and to believe that we are useless and weak. We take on that pressure and we lead lives trying to meet those expectations and bully ourselves when we cannot. We waste our time.

I hope to help people live lives that they want, and be free of those pressures so they can be themselves.

In my spare time, I spend time with my family, produce carpentry projects, watch sports, and play a wide variety of sports.