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About My Clients
I provide a supportive space for creatives, queer folks, and communities of color. My work focuses on anxiety, depression, and the impact of toxic shame, interpersonal/relational challenges, urban psychosocial stressors, and transgenerational trauma. I also support people with chronic health conditions, major life transitions, psychospiritual adversities in aging, and issues related to gender identity, sexuality, race, culture, acculturation, insecure attachment, and loneliness.
My Background and Approach
I provide therapy that is in-depth, insight-oriented, and relationship-centered. This addresses immediate disruptive symptoms along with their underlying drives and roots. As appropriate, we might reflect and reminisce about the past to re-examine unreconciled memories and hidden wounds with hopes to harvest wisdom. Other times, it may be better to problem-solve stressors in the environment or make sense of current struggles and hardships. We can also strategize solutions and plan for the future! I completed advanced training in psychodynamic psychotherapy from Airport Marina Counseling Service, as well as a clinician's program for Jungian Psychology in Clinical Practice at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles. I also infuse my practice with reminiscence and narrative therapy, problem-solving and task-centered approaches, solutions-focused therapy, systems theory, existential and humanistic psychology, and cognitive and behavioral interventions.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My social work journey has been transformative and healing--setting the foundation for my therapy practice. I was initially interested in medical and public health social work because of deep-seated fears about death and disease that stemmed from family. This led me to pursue specialized training in Geriatric Social Work and Gerontology at UCLA which provided me with psychosocial skills to empower families as we navigate fragmented US health systems, while also promoting resilience in response to adversities across the life course. Throughout my training, I also became particularly drawn to social work’s commitment to social justice which illuminated suffering and disparities that have been insidiously hidden in structural inequities. This awakened a deeper sensitivity, exploration, and care towards untended silent wounds and “legacies of loss” carried by marginalized folx, beginning with my own as a queer and closeted first-generation Asian American, descending from boat people.