Services
About My Clients
You may be struggling with much anxiety, irritability, have difficulties creating meaningful connections, feeling burned out, maybe history of challenging relationship with parent(s), or you may notice much dissatisfaction in life. My clients are ready to dive into deeper work of uncovering and shifting deep-seated patterns, to heal their on-going anxiety, relational wounding, and/or trauma (whether little "t" or big "T"), and learn to stand grounded in their confidence, in peace.
My Background and Approach
As a 1.5-generation Asian (Taiwanese) American immigrant growing up with very limited financial resources with a single-mom, I have experienced being "othered," to have to first focus on survival & security to such an extent that it was hard for me to slow down. This resulted in me burning out, twice! Through my own healing journey, I sought more learnings outside of traditional Western therapy, and found that these work! I have decades of experience providing therapy, and have learned many modalities. I now integrate holistic approaches, including use of Eastern tools such as somatic techniques (e.g., teaching you to use acupressure tapping) to decrease your emotional overwhelm. I may also integrate cognitive-behavioral and reconsolidation techniques, interpersonal/relational tools, mindfulness, imagery, Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, and other emotion-focused healing approaches. My clients benefit from my breadth and depth of knowledge and skills.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe each person has a right and potential to experience peace and calmness, despite swirling life and systemic circumstances. I love facilitating healing so that each person reconnects with that inner essence, so that we're each able to enjoy life and contribute to the community. When we encounter much challenging environments, or we lacked essential caring nourishment, we are forced into survival mode and adapted so much that we lose a sense of our essence, our confident centeredness. My work is to facilitate your recognition of your adapted tools and strengths, to collaboratively work with you to remove sometimes-unconscious barriers, those no-longer helpful reactions, to decrease your triggers, share knowledge, to be a clear mirror when needed, and provide tools so that you learn to live in alignment with your true unique spirit, to be that grounded you with a variety of adaptive skills.