Goal: For the person who’s tried to hold it all together, and is finally ready to put some of it down.
The Unlikely Collective is a psychotherapy practice rooted in cultural humility, somatic awareness, and the belief that healing isn’t one-dimensional. We integrate evidence-based counselling, Eastern health methodologies, and yoga to support your whole self – mind, body, and spirit.
Balance The Body, Quiet The Mind, Heal The Self.
From our Founder:
I didn’t arrive at this work in a straight line. I arrived through accumulated experiences, years of showing up to people at their worst, their most broken, and their most raw, and slowly realizing that what they needed wasn’t just a protocol or framework. It was presence.
I grew up with Punjabi Sikh roots on the traditional lands of the T’exelcemc First Nation. That upbringing gave me two things that shaped everything: a deep commitment to the Sikh principle Seva and understanding that healing is inherently communal. You don’t do it alone, and you don’t do it in a vacuum.
Before I became a therapist, I spent years as an Advanced Care Paramedic and Community Counsellor, supporting communities in crisis – including unhoused populations whose pain was as psychological as it was physical. I watched what happened when people’s suffering was treated as a symptom to be managed rather than a story to be heard. I knew there had to be a different way.
I went back to school and completed a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. Alongside undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Paramedicine, and Criminology, I trained in trauma-informed yoga and somatic practices. I studied the places where Eastern wisdom and Western Psychology meet – and found that intersection to be the most honest, most effective place to do the work.
The Unlikely Collective was built from all of that. It’s a space for people who have felt unseen in traditional therapy – people whose culture, spirituality, or lived experience didn’t fit neatly into a 50-60 minute CBT session. People who need their whole self to be part of the process.
If that’s you, I’d love to connect.
Gurmukh (CCC, MA, ACP)
