Binnie values the uniqueness of each person who seeks therapy and is deeply committed to walking alongside individuals and families through seasons of loss and change. She specializes in grief counselling, supporting clients navigating various forms of loss, including bereavement and life transitions such as immigration, divorce, separation, and major role or identity changes, alongside concerns such as anxiety, trauma, depression, spirituality, racism, and relational challenges.

Binnie’s care philosophy is grounded in compassion, cultural humility, and respect for each client’s story. She strives to create a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space where clients can share their lived experiences, relational struggles, and grief at their own pace. With sensitivity and intention, she helps clients identify their strengths and inner resources, fostering healing, meaning-making, and comfort. Her therapeutic style is warm, creative, collaborative, and individualized.

Binnie brings a rich personal and professional background to her work. As a mother of three and someone who has lived and worked in diverse communities across the U.S. and Asia, she understands how family, culture, and social contexts shape identity, relationships, and the experience of loss. She is especially attentive to how grief and transition are experienced differently across cultures and life stages, including in work with children and families.

Binnie completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College in architectural design and Chinese studies, and earned a master’s degree in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also holds a Master of Clinical Counselling from Tyndale Seminary, with a concentration in Thanatology (grief, death, and dying). Her clinical approach is strengths-based, culturally sensitive, and grief- and trauma-informed, integrating attachment-based therapy, family systems, psychodynamic approaches, and evidence-based modalities such as narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, and experiential therapy.

Outside of work, Binnie enjoys cooking, travelling, skiing, and playing board games with friends and family.