Hanson Qin

My website: www.enlightenwithhanson.com

I received my education and training from Columbia University in New York City. My therapeutic approach is client-centered, social-justice informed, insight oriented, collaborative, and guided by foundational principles in Eastern Buddhist philosophy and spirituality.

I specialize in the following areas of healing:

• Exploring one’s identity and understanding how marginalized and/or privileged aspects of one’s identity informs one’s lived experience and self-concept.
• Helping clients of marginalized identities feel EMPOWERED with self-love and acceptance in who they are authentically.
• Exploration of childhood trauma and using a deeply supportive and nurturing therapeutic bond to create emotionally reparative experiences.
• Providing evidence-supported and catered insight into how one’s trauma lead to the psychological development of maladaptive beliefs, behaviors, and triggers.
• Using mindfulness practices such as meditation and wisdom from Eastern Buddhist philosophy and spirituality to guide one’s awareness towards greater self-love, compassion, and enlightenment.

I identify as a psychodynamic therapist who also incorporates the techniques and philosophies of other orientations including CBT, internal family systems, DBT, existential therapy, and mindfulness/spirituality.

As a psychodynamic therapist, I believe that it is essential to understand one’s past experiences, starting from early childhood, in order to identify the past traumas that may have created false, limiting beliefs that fuel the triggers, destructive emotions, and maladaptive behaviors impacting one’s present reality. I believe that in order to heal and “upgrade” the personality, it’s important to first understand how the personality was formed and which aspects of the personality may have formed maladaptively.

I provide a safe, intimate, and nurturing space to help you unlock the repressed traumatic emotions and memories and facilitate emotionally reparative moments to help you heal and release your wounds.

Working with me may feel like confiding your deepest pains to an empathetic friend who is nurturing, insightful, emotionally attuned, and ready to guide you towards living an authentic and liberated life. My ultimate goal is to heal and disempower your traumas so you can identify the highest aspects of your soul and live a life of meaning and purpose.