Sunny Singhawachna

RCC #20984

Sunny Singhawachna is accepting new clients.

Hi, I’m Sunny (she/they)

I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), and I offer individual and relationship counselling both in person and online.

I know that beginning therapy can take courage. It can also feel awkward, uncertain, and strangely vulnerable to sit with someone you don’t yet know and talk about things you may barely understand yourself.

My approach is collaborative and curious. You can probably expect a lot of questions — the kind that help us slow down, get curious, and notice things that may have become so familiar they almost disappear into the background. I want therapy to feel like a space where you can arrive as you are, even if you are unsure what you need or where to begin.

I work with a range of concerns and experiences, many of which can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves, our relationships, or the life we imagined we would be living.

Identity, Belonging & Shame

As a queer South-East Asian woman and an immigrant in Canada, I understand that who we are cannot always be separated from family, culture, migration, faith, gender, sexuality, race, community, and belonging.

I know what it’s like to feel uncomfortable with parts of yourself and to wonder whether belonging means hiding.

Your experiences may be very different from mine, and I will not assume that shared identities mean shared stories. I hope to meet your experiences with curiosity, respect, and cultural humility, while remaining aware of the broader social conditions that may influence what you are carrying.

Relationships, Love & Authenticity

Relationships fascinate me. They are rarely simple, and they are often where our deepest longings, fears, expectations, and hurts show up.

Perhaps your relationship looks “good” from the outside, but inside you feel lonely, unseen, emotionally disconnected, or unsure whether what you’re experiencing is healthy.

I work with individuals and couples navigating conflict, resentment, betrayal, or differing needs for closeness and independence. Sometimes the struggle is harder to name — a growing distance, a recurring pattern you can’t seem to change, or the painful feeling of not being seen, valued, or loved in the way you hoped.

Together, we can create space to understand what is happening in your relationships, recognize patterns that may be keeping you stuck, communicate more honestly, and explore what you need moving forward — without losing sight of your dignity, agency, or sense of self.

Grief, Loss & All That We Carry

Some experiences continue to live with us long after they have ended.

You may be carrying loss, betrayal, family wounds, emotional neglect, cultural pressures, or the lasting effects of experiences that have shaped how you see yourself, relate to others, and move through the world.

In our work together, we can make space to understand what you have endured, what those experiences may have taken from you, and what you would now like to reclaim.

Meaning, Mid-life & Being Human

How do you want to live the rest of your life?
What truly matters to you now?
What do you no longer want to give your limited energy to?
And how do you actually choose differently?

Perhaps life looks fine from the outside, yet you feel empty, restless, disconnected, or unsure what any of it is for. You may be thinking about aging, mortality, purpose, regret, responsibility, freedom, faith, or how best to live the life that remains.

In therapy, we can explore what matters to you now, what you want to make room for, and what it might look like to participate differently in the life that is yours.

Outside the Therapy Room

Outside of counselling, I am a deeply devoted aunt, a partner to my wife, and a dog mom . I enjoy watching YouTube, reading, and thinking about psychology, spirituality, relationships, culture, and the general confusion of being human.

I would be glad to hear more about what has been happening in your life and what you are hoping counselling might offer. You’re welcome to book a free 15-minute consultation to see whether working together might feel like a good fit, or book a first session if you’re ready to begin.

Sunny’s informed consent form can be found here.

Sunny offers counselling services in English, Thai, and Punjabi.

Approaches Used

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Anti-Oppressive, Attachment Informed / Attachment Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Humanistic / Person-Centred Therapy / Rogerian, Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Parts Work, Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), Narrative Therapy, Relational Therapy, Trauma Informed Therapy

Sunny Singhawachna is accepting new clients.

How Much Counselling Will I Need?

It depends on what you want. Most clients fall into one of three categories:

One (or two) and done – I just want some advice to move forward on a problem. Cool, just let me know that so I can make sure the session will be focused.
Acute issue – I need some support to resolve an issue, but I don’t want to be in counselling forever. This usually takes 8-12 sessions but could be shorter or longer based on your needs (time, financial, issue complexity). We create the ideal structure together.
Long-term therapeutic relationship – I need a safe space to process life events. Sessions are often booked up to a year in advance so you can count on the structure and support. The topic often changes session to session, but relates back to an overarching theme of self-development, relationship management, or something of that nature.

I can’t tell you which issues fall into which bucket, or guarantee results, because each client is unique. It’s best to let me know which category you think you might fall into, we can check and adjust as needed.

What experience or background do you bring to your counselling and supervision practice that is uniquely yours?

The experience of conformity that comes from the need to feel loved, accepted and belong to my culture and community, but doing so with the expense of having to silence and hide my identity and way of being. And I think that is a challenge in any arena, whether it’s our gender or sexual identity, roles and rules tied to different identities, the way we think of our bodies, our race, our looks, and how we show up in our relationships. We live in a world where some ideas and ways of living are more welcoming and agreeable, and I am passionate about examining these dominant beliefs with my clients, and hopefully resisting and reclaiming spaces that are often marginalised and dismissed.

What is your favourite thing about working closely with people every day?

To have the opportunity to learn, to have the honour of being a witness to my client’s stories, and understand their experiences, are things that make my work so fulfilling for me. Working closely with folx, I have the opportunity to know more about languages, ideas and impressions that are held dearly but could be conflicting with their sense of being. I love the opportunity to be curious and to bring these conversations in the sessions, where we can dismantle these ideas and notions, and then either challenge them or support the ideas that affirm presence and state of being.

What is a personal challenge that you have overcome in your own life?

Belonging to a minority Sikh community and being queer, my biggest struggle is to be able to make space for acceptance of my gender and sexual identity in my family and my community which I value very much. This was and is still quite challenging, as minority orientations are often ridiculed, not accepted, and silenced. It has been a journey of perseverance and persistence, and I had to hold strong to my authenticity, be on my own side all along the way. Now I can use my experiences to create a space for folks who are also trying to find their voice and their place in this hetero-normative, supremacist, exploitative world.

What have you learned from your work?

I have learnt about resilience, about inner insight and wisdom. Most profoundly I’ve learned how a will to survive and a sense of actualization is present in each and every one of us, and that our struggles are mostly our learned ways of coping that would allow us to function and thrive. I feel like my work has taught me a lot about looking at myself and my fellow humans through the lens of understanding, recognizing that what we call sickness, addictions, disordered personality or diseased, are acts of resistance against the dominant, structural forces in our surrounding environment and culture. So this work gives me an opportunity to normalise my client’s rationalisations and strategies, acknowledge their efforts, and work together to explore and affirm the dignity of peoples and their communities.

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Last Updated: September 29, 2026 Created: November 15, 2023

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