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About My Clients
If you are experiencing relational challenges related to parenting, partnership, or life transition, I would love to collaborate and walk with you through your challenges. Being a first-generation immigrant myself and raising children across borders as a BIPOC, I am familiar with the tension that comes from the differences in cultural/generational values/experiences. I would love to travel with those of you who identify as children of immigrants, people of color, or multi-racial/cultural.
My Background and Approach
I approach our work with you with a systemic and holistic perspective honoring your worldview and experiences and walk with you from a curiosity stance without judgment. Being part of the interconnected, natural world, we thrive in connection, and without connection, we wither. In our work together, we will collaborate in understanding what makes you come alive and wilt, to look for ways to get unstuck and make meaning of your emotions, pain, reactivity, and suffering. We will explore the stories that you tell yourself with the intention of how they shape your relationships with you and the people in your life, but respectfully and authentically that honors your complexity of you. Collaboration and trust are the foundation of our therapeutic relationship. My style is direct and humorous with warmth and respect. My goals are to understand what makes you, you and support you in your journey to self-acceptance and becoming your fullest expression. I have a 20 year teaching background too
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I witnessed the power of resiliency working with individuals and families as a teacher in the classroom. As a family therapist, I view people in the context of their family, social, cultural, and spiritual environment. I enjoy facilitating changes and empowering them to break free from anything that holds them back. My work is to restore balance, build communication, and open space in creating an optimal environment for new connections and perspectives. I approach my work from a narrative lens believing that change can happen as we actively rewrite our own preferred narratives. I am a trauma-informed DBT therapist experienced working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families from diverse cultural settings and across different life stages. I also work with trauma using somatic therapy and EMDR to acknowledge, process, and heal the pain that our bodies carry.