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About My Clients
I work with adult individuals and couples. As a Chinese American, I value the layers of complexity in each person's identity. I have a specific interest in working with interracial couples and helping them to develop a richer understanding of their partner and their relationship given these cultural complexities.
My Background and Approach
I operate primarily out of an attachment, trauma-informed lens. Modalities utilized including Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, Lifespan Integration and Restoration Therapy. I believe that humans are inherently relational. When two of our attachment needs for love and safety are violated or left unmet, we can experience loneliness, low self-worth, and mistrust in relationships. Many of us learn to cope with this pain by utilizing maladaptive strategies (distracting, withdrawing, blaming etc.)-- coping responses that ultimately leave us hurting and even further disconnected from our loved ones. My focus in therapy is to highlight the cycles of pain you may find yourself and/or your relationship in, and to assist you in building greater self-awareness and attunement to yourself and others. My hope is that you can leave therapy embodying a new way of living-- with greater self-compassion and deeper connection in your relationships.