Ji Eun Ko LMFT

Did you know that research indicates that microaggressions have the same effect on our systems as a Big T Trauma? If you live with cultural and systemic oppression, its effects on your wellbeing and health cannot be understated. If you live in a world where your experiences are minimized and silenced, it's especially important to seek spaces where you can fully exist and express what it's like to be you. And therapy can be one of those safe spaces where you can take up space without apology.

Relationships are extremely powerful experiences - they have the power to build us up and make us feel invincible to the challenges of the world, but it can also break us down, and make us believe our lives are fated for pain and distress. Your relationship can be a tremendous factor for healing and wellness, and you can begin that journey in therapy.

Throughout life, it's common for our own cultures to diverge from the cultures that were given to us by our families. And often, this process can be accompanied by pain in the relationship. If you are feeling lost about how to happily and peacefully exist in your family system, we can work through it together in therapy.

IFS is a journey of seeking internal peace and harmony. Internal systems can become unbalanced as a result of trauma, systemic racism, attachment injuries, and other painful experiences. When internal systems become unbalanced, different Parts influence one another in harmful and unproductive ways. An IFS therapist supports the journey to a harmonious system, where all Parts are connected and collaborative. And a harmonious internal system supports harmonnious external experiences.

For someone who holds an identity that is a cultural other, it is important that therapy is a space that is protected from further cultural othering. Culturally sensitive or Culturally humble therapy is a space that prioritizes and centers someone's cultural experience. Meaning, you don't have to defend why your family was the way it was - rather, you can experience acceptance for your cultural parts and process healing in therapy together.

For someone who holds an identity that is a cultural other, it is important that therapy is a space that is protected from further cultural othering. Culturally sensitive or Culturally humble therapy is a space that prioritizes and centers someone's cultural experience. Meaning, you don't have to defend why your family was the way it was - rather, you can experience acceptance for your cultural parts and process healing in therapy together.

EFT is a therapy modality for couples who are struggling connecting emotionally. Emotional disconnect can show up in many insidious ways in a relationship: repeated arguments about the same things, feeling unheard, unseen, and unknown by your partner, and feeling uncertain about the future of your partnership. EFT can identify relationship cycles that are no longer serving you, break it down, and rebuild new healthy patterns that supports emotional connection and growth.