Services
About My Clients
I offer support to adolescents, adults, couples and families, many of whom are children of immigrants, high achievers and people pleasers. In our work together, my goal is to help you cultivate greater awareness, identify and discard unhelpful patterns and create new avenues of change. I enjoy helping clients explore their identities and experiences in more depth in order to integrate more adaptive ways to heal from past wounds and live a more intentional and fulfilling life.
My Background and Approach
I view the therapeutic process from a relational and attachment-focused perspective. Therapy with me is a dynamic, collaborative space that positions you as the expert of your own life and honors your inherent sense of agency. I am trained to conceptualize problems from a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive lens, with an emphasis in upholding anti-racist and queer-affirming practices. My clinical training includes working with low-income, BIPOC communities; high-risk clients at the intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization levels; and children, adolescents and adults who struggle with perfectionism, boundaries, grief, shame, relationship issues and more. My style is both personalized and holistic, as I adapt my approach to each client's unique needs while focusing on the whole person and the systems they are embedded in. I deeply value the importance of our therapeutic relationship and aim to intentionally co-create a space where you feel safe, accepted and understood.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am passionate about serving marginalized communities and leveraging my voice and privileges in the spaces I am part of. This includes both the therapy space and those outside of it. Much of my clinical work is informed by my own lived experiences as a second-generation Chinese American woman who has also struggled intimately with mental health. I actively engage in my own inner work as I firmly believe that my job as a therapist requires continual self-examination, accountability and learning/unlearning. When I am not working, you can find me making and trying new foods, running, traveling, hosting game nights or cuddling with my three cats.