Angela Leong, Registered Clinical Counsellor

02/25/2026

This month at MAPS Canada, we're exploring Connection & Wellbeing and in this Podcast episode, host Osheen Dayal sits down with Angela Leong, Registered Clinical Counsellor, founder of An Elegant Mind Counselling.

Their conversation explores love, intimacy, ethics, psychedelics, and the future of connection, asking what it means to truly heal by reconnecting with our authentic selves.

Angela shares her powerful work in relationship healing, sexuality, and trauma, and introduces the KISSS Method: Ketamine-Induced Self and S*xuality Synchronization, a unique bio-psycho-spiritual approach blending ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, couples work, and tantric-inspired practices.

Now streaming: https://youtu.be/ZwtAXBa1u-Y

02/25/2026

05/07/2024

Newsletter update from Angela - https://mailchi.mp/8a94f7c9f983/letter-from-angela-ive-returned-from-indonesia-and-aem-updates

05/15/2022

Discovering Bhuddism in France. Did you know that when Thich Nhat Hanh was refused the right to return to Vietnam for his peace promotion work, he settled in France? He established a Bhuddist monastery in Harmeau du Bas, close to Bordeaux, which has become the largest Bhuddic community in Europe?

10/26/2021

I’ve been thinking about taking on an art class. I want to tackle act of making art as a meditation or a portal to connect with the divine (and therefore, your highest self and most creative work).

Lots of people I know are having mood issues and struggling with keeping up with the political tension of vaccines, the fear of getting sick, and other covid-related struggles such as not being as social and vibrant as they once were.

How have I been tackling covid blues?
I’ve been leveling up on my self care: I journal every single night before bed. It’s like a meditation to me. I reflect on the day, muse over any synchronicities and set intentions for my dreams to tell me something I need to know about my life.

I aim to workout twice a day and really feel the movement in my body. And I go for walks around my favourite part of the sea wall. Sometimes while I move I am listening to a podcast or music or talking with a friend, sometimes I am just being with the movement-based activity.

I also take myself on dates to art galleries.

I’m also taking a French language class. It feels so energizing to learn something for the sake of learning something: not for grades or any ulterior motive other than it would help me connect with the world in a different way.

I used to have a lot of issues with self-care. I used to feel guilty about not doing “actual work”.

Now I embrace the activity until I feel INSPIRED to work again.

And when I’m rested and well, I do dive into my tasks with gusto.

So, any recommended art teachers in the Vancouver area you recommend? ✨🌙

10/11/2021

🌞 WHAT IS A HEALING CIRCLE? 🌝

We are building an international Asian community who are ready to share their lived experiences through these trying times and have a space in which to process intergenerational, relational, and racial trauma. This is for those who have felt unseen, unheard, and alone in their lives as Asian individuals living in a western society. Together we define what trauma is, explore early attachment wounds to understand the present, and to remind each other that we’re not alone in our experiences.

🌞 YOUR FACILITATORS 🌝

ANGELA IVY LEONG

Angela is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She trained at the University of British Columbia Counselling Psychology Master of Arts program, and has post-grad clinical training in EFT, AEDP Psychedelic Integration, & S*x Therapy. Angela is passionate about creating a space for Asians, particularly Chinese migrants to name the discomfort, struggle, or awkwardness of being Asian in a western context, one in which lies the nuanced dialect between aspiring to western ideals of individualism, yet being able to let go of Eastern values.

JOCELYN LEE

Jocelyn is a spiritual guide and life coach. For over a decade, Jocelyn’s been on a journey of reclaiming parts of herself left behind and re-writing her own story of wholeness. One of her greatest joys is walking beside others on their journey home to themselves. Jocelyn believes in the healing and transformative power of sharing lived experiences. Having founded the Women’s Sharing Circle in Copenhagen 3 years ago, she has seen firsthand the positive effect that a community that comes together to be seen, heard, and supported has.

🌞 PROGRAM DETAILS 🌝
• 6 person group
• 6 online sessions every other Sunday, at 9AM PST/6pm CET, for 3hrs:
- October 24, 2021
- November 7, 2021
- November 21, 2021
- December 5, 2021
- December 19, 2021
- January 2, 2022

Location: VIRTUAL (via Zoom)

🌞 REGISTRATION 🌝

Please email asianhealingcircle@gmail.com

09/03/2021

A friend just reminded me that time scarcity is a real thing: when you say yes to something, you’re saying no to something else.

You cannot say yes to every single relationship, project, or request that comes your way. You must learn to say no and let go of guilt. It’s not necessary to do anything with your guilt. Of course, we developed and continued to pass on this pro-social tendency as a survival mechanism because it helps us in some ways: e.g. to think out a moral choice and it prevent (the majority) us from killing each other.

But in the context of simply saying no to something that doesn’t serve you, you’re enabling a new path for yourself and the other. Whatever emotions they are experiencing as a result of your No will be their process to work with, learn from and heal with.

By the way, people will challenge you! They’ll overstep your boundaries and try to ni**le themselves in again. And by channeling your truth, you say no again, more, more and loudly until they get the point. Get a restraining order if you need to. Everyone is wired differently. They may never understand your No.

When you notice that a certain relationship is causing you resentment, anxiety or discontent, think about the cost that it’s making on your health.

YES, emotions will affect your health and if you need to be convinced, you can read ‘When The Body Says No’ by

08/15/2021

When you connect with ocean how do you feel?

For me, I feel connected with someone much bigger than me. So then I realize how small my problems actually are, in the grand scheme of the world and beyond.

When I swim in the ocean, I feel like my problems are temporarily suspended, just in the way my body is suspended in the water - just floating with no beginning and no end.

Whenever I am feeling heavy, I swim in the ocean and I always get out feeling better than when I stepped in. It’s my go-to self-care activity, for maintaining peace in my life and for when there’s a crisis.

We are so lucky to be living in Vancouver, a lovely city right next to the Pacific Ocean.

08/12/2021

Talk to me: what does it mean for you to “take a ”?

When you come back home, wherever home is, what is it that you use your post-vacation energy for?

For me, it’s being able to pursue my calling with more enthusiasm, and from a slightly different, more complex perspective.

🏝

08/10/2021

What does it mean to take a vacation?

For me it means to depart from your normal responsibilities for a period of time. Long enough for you to momentarily feel as if your old life was not real or did not exist. A period of time for you to play with a different way of being in the world: one with less stress or less of a certain kind of emotion.

There were times this year where I did not feel like waking up, because the demands of my life were too great. I was trying to take on too much of the world’s grief. I had no intention to commit su***de, but I felt deeply depressed some evenings. (The mornings were always better.)

Going on vacation has allowed me to get away from pushing forward with my nose on the grindstone, so that I can see my things from a birds eye view. And that has been tremendously helpful.

05/19/2021

Channeling sadness and anger can really get you to places you didn’t imagine.

Speaking out against the xenophobia that may have always existed against Asians is something I feel is my social responsibility as an Asian-Canadian.

I’m not just speaking for my and my family’s fears and pains but for the community I serve as well.

Thank you to for this segment. Thank you to for the invitation. Watch the segment on my page!