Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I am passionate about working with clients of marginalized gender, sexuality, and racial identities, who are exploring their truths related to culture, race, generation, queerness, and spirituality. It is my sincere hope that together we can explore the important intersection of personal transformation and social change.
My Background and Approach
The tenets of social justice, creativity, and trauma-informed care are central to my therapeutic approach. I work from an anti-oppression and multicultural lens. I fundamentally believe that each person is the expert of their own life, and that my role is to collaborate with each client in finding their individualized path to healing. In addition to talk therapy, I gently invite clients to explore their full range of expression through art making, storytelling, music, breathwork, and movement; the body can understand truth in ways that words cannot. I honor this courageous work by showing up to every session with an intent to foster a collaborative, consensual, and radically affirming space. We will begin wherever you are, however you are able: micro shifts are often trailheads to big transformation.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
In my experience as a client, I struggled for many years to find a therapist who intimately understood how my intersecting identities contextualized my experiences. As a 3rd gen Korean Filipino American queer femme, the question of how to navigate life in the duality and the in-between has perpetually challenged and inspired me throughout my life, delivering me to the role of therapist. I am committed to creating more opportunities for marginalized folx to feel celebrated and important in this world. I have worked in a variety of settings, including a community mental health agency whose mission centered on providing affirming care to the Seattle queer and trans communities. I have served across the developmental lifespan with preschoolers, refugee youth, and elders celebrating work in anti-bias education, social emotional learning, and community-based art therapy.