Welcome!
Hi, I’m Jason. I’m a counselling therapist based in Vancouver, BC. I provide a grounded and collaborative space to help people work through their struggles, goals, and dreams. Nice to meet you!
You can learn more about who I am in the sidebar, or check out About Jason to read more of my story.
What is this?
This is my digital garden—not your typical blog. Author and researcher Anne-Laure Le Cunff defines this as:
An online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public.
In a typical blog, articles can often become stale or outdated after being published. In this space, writing will grow and evolve, updated as the world around me changes, my practice grows, and I deepen my own understanding of these topics.
In my garden, articles have two dates:
- First planted – Date first published online
- Last tended – Date last updated
My garden also “grows” articles at different rates. Ideas are “planted” at various times throughout the season. At the top of each article, you’ll see how mature or developed an article is:
- Seedling 🌱 – A new idea just planted; unrefined, unfinished
- Budding 🌿 – An article that is developing
- Evergreen 🌲- A refined article that has been updated over time
Why do this?
Before becoming a counsellor, I worked as an adult educator, translating complex topics into simple language. And in the world of mental health care, there is a lot to demystify!
With this space, I aim to accomplish three goals:
- To lower barriers to mental health support by providing generalized support and free resources
- To give you a free and anonymous way to hear my “voice” and perspective as you consider working with me
- To practice bravery, creativity, and knowledge-seeking, facilitating my own learning through the writing process 💪
Is there a topic or question you're super curious about? Let me know and I'll consider it for a future article!
What to expect?
This isn’t yet another generic blog—those already exist! There’s plenty of information already out there on mental health (some of it is actually good!) and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel.
Instead, we’ll explore fun things like systems, climate, health care as a business, and therapy in the age of AI. I’ll offer practical insights in plain English that are based on modern therapy approaches and the latest research in psychology.
Ideas will be presented through a lens that’s both professionally-informed and deeply personal.
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🤖 Role of AI in writing
It’s remarkable how powerful and widely available AI tools have become in just the last few years. It’s 2026, and yesterday I created an app to help our family organize our recipes in about 15 minutes with the help of AI. Sure, the app didn’t fully work right away, but still these tools are still incredibly capable when given the right prompts and time to refine their output.
Even though I could use AI to write articles for me, I would consider it to be inauthentic. All words and opinions here are my own (unless otherwise cited). That means no AI-generated content.
Where I find it helpful to sometimes ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude for input is in research and discovery: finding data and different perspectives to help streamline research; and for technical support with online publishing. Of course, these AI chatbots are capable of confidently inventing facts, so any data provided through this process is fact-checked, and I ultimately only reference sources that I trust.
Happy reading!
If anything you read here resonates with you or brings up some feelings, I invite you to connect with me and explore what working through it together might look like.
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