📢 Patchwork Conversations is closing on June 30, 2026.

Welcome!

Imperfection. Vulnerability. Equanimity. These resonated with us at Patchwork Conversations.

Patchwork Conversations was a collective of Asian therapists in what we come to call Toronto, Canada. We were here to mold spaces that honoured what came up from uncommon conversations – conversations that shifted us towards liberation, towards freeing ourselves from the constraints that hold us back from being the compassionate, authentic and loving selves we already are and that are needed in a just future with space for all peoples.

As a society, we are on our way, but we are not there yet.

Where we were, we knew this: therapy is hard work – for the client and for the therapist. One of the hardest steps is to be confronted with, and to admit to, our imperfections. Before considering the choice of change – yes, there really is a choice – feeling vulnerable, raw and undone can be so lonesome. Yet more than ever, we are seeing people willing to go through this self‑actualizing journey. In the Asian Canadian community, we have seen this – a “reckoning,” as Cathy Park Hong calls it, or a “permission to come home,” as Jenny T. Wang names it.

At Patchwork Conversations, we saw imperfections and vulnerability as an opening – an entry point. While each of us has to individually put in the hard work of re‑narrating our harsh personal histories, we also dreamed of parts of this journey where folks could meet others going through something similar – a space tender enough for others to show us, in reflection of ourselves, the compassionate, authentic and loving selves we are.

Patchwork Conversations will be closing on June 30, 2026, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who was part of this community.

Land Acknowledgement

Patchwork Conversations is based on the Dish with One Spoon Territory, land of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, colonially known as Toronto, Canada. Subsequent Indigenous Nations, Europeans and newcomers like ourselves have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. This is important to us at Patchwork Conversations in learning and unlearning ways of thinking and doing as a collective of settler immigrants.

Our Team

Kennes Lin, MSW, RSW

Kennes (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian settler immigrant cis-woman living in Toronto, the Dish with One Spoon Territory. She oversees as Director of all clinical services at Hong Fook Mental Health Association, a leading ethno-cultural community mental health agency in Ontario. Kennes was the recipient of the 2021 Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) Beverly Antle Leadership Award, leading a grassroots group in the fight against anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. Communicating her extensive experience working with Asian youth and families therapeutically and in community, she has taught at OASW on topics of anti-Asian racism, at York University’s School of Social Work, and as a field educator at University of Toronto’s FIFSW. Kennes is passionate and engulfed with the vision and practice of using individual and family psychotherapy as a path towards collective liberation from on-going violently oppressive structures, recently co-founding Patchwork Conversations.

Reach out to me at hello@patchworkconversations.com

Bradyn Ko, MSW, RSW

Bradyn (he/him/they/them) is a queer cis-gender Asian Canadian settler immigrant therapist and clinical consultant, living in Toronto. Bradyn has been working as a therapist for the past 9 years, formally trained in and utilizing CBT, EMDR, IPT, and DBT, and brings extensive clinical knowledge and experience in working with a range of different mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD/trauma, and OCD and with different special populations, such as sexual and gender minorities, newcomers/refugees, ethnoracial minorities, and international students. Bradyn currently works as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in a private practice, and at Hong Fook Mental Health Association, and a therapist at Strides Toronto, and has previously worked at a mental health hospital, the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy program, and an EAP company. Bray has completed more than 30 hours of Clinical Supervisor training, and meets the CRPO definition of a clinical supervisor for the registered members of the college. Visit saero.ca

Reach out to me at bradyn@patchworkconversations.com

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