A Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Certified EMDR Therapist, I identify as a middle-class, middle-aged, cisgender, queer, Buddhist mother of color. I have 20 years of clinical experience with refugees, immigrant and multicultural populations, as well as trauma survivors on issues of violence, sexuality, grief and loss.
I typically use EMDR as a modality and incorporate brain-based and body psychotherapies in conjunction with attachment-focused therapy. In counseling, I will be listening for the meaning you make of your life and explore with you ways in which you can understand your own stories and shape them to the kind of life story you prefer. My approach focuses on you as the expert on your life while having difficulty to find your way through the debris of life circumstances and relationships.
I am interested in the totality of your experience in terms of past, present, and future, the identities, cultures, environments and sociopolitical contexts in which you live, as well as in body and mind. I work with you to be able to restory your life, in attitude, feeling, and behavior, such that you have the insights you need to build the healthy outcomes you desire.
