I am a first-generation Chinese American psychotherapist (she/her). I come with 7 years of combined experience in grief and loss, complex trauma, and clinical medical counseling. I have provided therapy in foster care, oncology centers, hospitals, and private practice. My work combines my experience in interdisciplinary medical spaces, my training as a psychoanalytic therapist, and my ongoing deconstruction of race, gender, and identity.

In private practice, I have worked with insightful and driven individuals who were grappling with a life transition (break-up/divorce, parenthood, death of a loved one, launching), a new diagnosis, struggling with dread, or facing their childhood trauma for the first time. Common threads include childhood trauma and abuse, children of immigrants, bicultural identity, medical diagnosis, chronic illnesses, imposter syndrome, intersectionality, or overcoming feelings of anxiety, depression, and shame.

In my day-to-day, I am the Clinical Lead with a hospice agency dedicated to Asian, Pacific, Islander (API) immigrants, refugees, and families. I have supported over 300 patients through a medical crisis, including death journey, diagnosis to remission, and bereavement.

I believe in the power of therapy and its ability to hold, heal, and teach. I approach the therapeutic work with inclusion, wonder, creativity, and truth. My style is psychodynamic, mind-body-earth oriented, and trauma-informed. I welcome BIPOC and LGBTQ+.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase.  Just take the first step.
      - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.