Hi, I’m Max. I’m a Registered Psychotherapist based in Toronto. I’m the ​son of immigrants from the Philippines and I’ve lived in this city for ​most of my life. My first career was in Book Publishing where I worked ​for over a decade. I’m a practitioner and Sifu (instructor) in Wing Chun ​Kung Fu with over twenty years of experience. I got the term ​centreline from Wing Chun which, to me, relates to the core self, the ​sacred part of each of us that we need to keep safe and always come ​home to.

I draw from psychotherapy modalities including Narrative Therapy, ​Grief Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Existential Therapy, and ​from my training in Spiritual Care, Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa ​Menakem, The Trauma of Money, and Writing the Unthinkable with ​Lynda Barry. I am passionate about working with many types of clients ​including immigrants and refugees, people wounded by their ​workplaces, and BIPOC. I work with individuals, from those in ​quarterlife to those in their elder years, who are seeking self-​acceptance, deeper relationships, personal agency, and meaning, and ​who want to rediscover the unique sacred parts of themselves so they ​can feel all that they need to feel and more fully engage in their lives.