Wendy Zhang M.S., APC

We spend more than a third of our lives at work, so it's no surprise work issues take a toll on mental health. Whether you're choosing a career path, facing burnout, navigating a toxic workplace, or searching for meaning in your work, I've been there. Eight years in corporate before becoming a therapist gave me real, lived understanding. Together, we'll sit with the fear and uncertainty as much as we work toward practical steps, so you leave with both clarity and a plan forward.

Therapy sometimes zooms in so closely on you that it misses the bigger picture. Trauma carried by family members often shapes how they show up in our lives, the way they love, worry, or withhold. Looking at where that pain came from can bring real relief and clarity. My goal isn't to hand you an explanation, but to help you become the author of your own story: someone who holds what happened, rather than being held by it.

When women speak up, for space, for credit, for their own needs, we're too often called too emotional, too demanding, too much. That message doesn't stop with our families; it follows us into work, where our contributions get quietly undervalued too. Little by little, we learn to make ourselves smaller. I help women reconnect with their voice, set boundaries, and build a life shaped by their own values, not roles they were handed.

Our minds often tell us stories, that we're broken, behind, or too much. ACT teaches that you don't have to believe every thought or fight it into submission. Through mindfulness and defusion, we practice noticing thoughts as thoughts, not facts, so they lose some of their grip. From there, we clarify what actually matters to you and take real steps toward it, even alongside discomfort. The goal isn't fewer hard feelings, it's a fuller, more values driven life.

DBT offers concrete tools for managing day to day emotional intensity, tolerating distress, and navigating relationships. If you like structure and hands on practice, these skills can bring real relief early in the work. I especially love the mindfulness and dialectical thinking pieces, that both/and way of holding two truths at once tends to create lasting change when practiced consistently over time.

Existential therapy sees distress not as something abnormal, but as part of being human. At different points, we all face death, loneliness, freedom, and the search for meaning. Naming these can lift the shame many carry about struggling. You are not alone. Together we do meaning work: what kind of life you want, and living it congruently. This lens also holds change well, nothing in life stays fixed. We grieve what's lost, and rebuild around it, more like a river than something static.

Our minds often tell us stories, that we're broken, behind, or too much. ACT teaches that you don't have to believe every thought or fight it into submission. Through mindfulness and defusion, we practice noticing thoughts as thoughts, not facts, so they lose some of their grip. From there, we clarify what actually matters to you and take real steps toward it, even alongside discomfort. The goal isn't fewer hard feelings, it's a fuller, more values driven life.

Our minds often tell us stories, that we're broken, behind, or too much. ACT teaches that you don't have to believe every thought or fight it into submission. Through mindfulness and defusion, we practice noticing thoughts as thoughts, not facts, so they lose some of their grip. From there, we clarify what actually matters to you and take real steps toward it, even alongside discomfort. The goal isn't fewer hard feelings, it's a fuller, more values driven life.

Our minds often tell us stories, that we're broken, behind, or too much. ACT teaches that you don't have to believe every thought or fight it into submission. Through mindfulness and defusion, we practice noticing thoughts as thoughts, not facts, so they lose some of their grip. From there, we clarify what actually matters to you and take real steps toward it, even alongside discomfort. The goal isn't fewer hard feelings, it's a fuller, more values driven life.

Existential therapy sees distress not as something abnormal, but as part of being human. At different points, we all face death, loneliness, freedom, and the search for meaning. Naming these can lift the shame many carry about struggling. You are not alone. Together we do meaning work: what kind of life you want, and living it congruently. This lens also holds change well, nothing in life stays fixed. We grieve what's lost, and rebuild around it, more like a river than something static.