The world isn’t fair — let’s even the odds
Healing and thriving are both hard struggles, but you don’t have to struggle alone. Allow me to walk with you on your path, and I will lend guidance and perspective without ever imposing my will over yours. Let’s work together to find the next steps to whatever you bring, the middle path between the burdens and the joys.
As someone with a lot of identities - queer, transgender, Taiwanese-American, autistic, and more - my therapeutic stance combines my professional and personal experiences with what I learn from you so we may tailor the best approach. This can be more somatic-leaning, philosophically-inclined, skills-based, or any combination thereof. And since there is no way around the fact that we live in a society, therapy must also confront our responsibility to ourselves, our community, and the external factors that narrow our choices in the first place. Trained and practiced primarily in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a cousin of CBT, as well as given my identities, I offer a unique perspective on both the process of therapy and the environmental pressures we face.
And finally, when we have come as far as we can together, let us part ways amicably and healthily – my selfish quest as a therapist is to render myself obsolete, to contribute to a world that one day needs no borders, inequity, and even therapists. To those of you who have been neglected by our white-dominated institutions, who have sought help from those that don’t (and maybe cannot ever) “get it”, and who have been told you have or are a problem – let’s talk!
Oh, you wanna know more about me?
My darling cat, Noi
It was hard growing up with many tell-tale signs of autism - echolalia, stimming behaviors, difficulty in social settings that extended beyond anxiety, etc. - but it was even harder to not get the help or find the right words to describe my experience. I crashed, inevitably, in my junior year of college by way of getting suspended due to poor grades. Anxious, repressed, and filled with hopelessness, I was recommended a therapist by my school. I took a bus to the mental health clinic once a week, and four months in, we finally had our first breakthrough. As for what happened after that - here I am. And here you are, reading this.
I’m someone who experiences something amazing and is immediately filled with the desire to share it with everyone around me. It extends to matters like food, music, movies, games, places, and, most relevantly, certain emotions. The amount of hope I’ve found since those first steps into therapy is so immense, and I just want to make sure others can get a chance to have a taste too.
