Services
About My Clients
I work with adults navigating difficult periods, major decisions, and meaningful transitions in life or work. You may feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about what comes next; be struggling with recurring personal or relationship patterns; or want to understand yourself more deeply. I welcome clients from diverse identities, cultures, and professional backgrounds and have specific expertise in career and financial concerns.
My Background and Approach
I am a licensed psychologist in Washington, D.C., with a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. My experience spans university counseling centers, community behavioral health, and private practice. I am also a vocational psychology researcher, which helps me integrate research on work and career with individualized psychotherapy. My approach is warm, collaborative, integrative, and whole-person. I consider both the concerns bringing you to therapy and how they relate to your identities, experiences, cultures, relationships, work, values, history, and circumstances. I draw from a range of evidence-based approaches rather than relying on a single model. Together, we can explore recurring patterns, develop new perspectives and strategies, build on your strengths, deepen self-compassion, and identify realistic ways forward.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I exist at the intersection of several identities and experiences: I am Asian American, a 1.5-generation immigrant, and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. These experiences inform my appreciation for the complexity of identity, belonging, navigating multiple cultures, and creating a life for myself amid different (and sometimes conflicting) expectations. I believe therapy should respect each person’s autonomy, dignity, culture, and right to define a meaningful life for themselves. I believe psychological well-being cannot be separated from the social and material conditions in which we live. Work, money, relationships, family expectations, discrimination, opportunity, and security shape our experiences. Therapy should support understanding and change without treating every difficulty as an individual failing. I approach differences with cultural humility, attend to power and privilege, and help clients examine what matters without imposing my own answers.