Jen Peng

Are you feeling anxious, stuck in old patterns, or unsure of where you belong in this complex world? Struggling to balance work and personal life? Maybe you’re navigating grief, a major life change, or carrying a sense of disconnection from yourself and those around you. You may also be trying to understand which parts of you feel genuinely your own and which have been shaped by family, culture, expectations, or experiences you have carried for a long time. If so, you don’t have to go through it alone.

With over a decade of clinical experience and backgrounds in International Disaster Psychology and Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, I bring a broad understanding of how our inner lives are shaped by more than symptoms alone. I am especially interested in the intersections of identity, culture, relationships, life experiences, and the larger environments we move through.

Therapy with me is warm, curious, and conversational. I want you to feel like you can bring your whole self into the room, including the parts that feel complicated, contradictory, difficult to name, or still in the process of becoming. Whether you are exploring cultural, racial, ethnic, spiritual, professional, relational, or personal parts of yourself, we can make space for your history while helping you understand who you are now and what you want your life to look like moving forward.

My approach is humanistic, relational, multicultural, narrative, and trauma-attuned. Together, we explore not only what you are feeling, but how your relationships, identities, culture, past experiences, and even the ways your body responds may shape how you move through the world. I draw from somatic, emotion-focused, mindfulness, and strengths-based approaches to help you better understand yourself, recognize patterns that may no longer serve you, and make room for ways of living that feel more authentic to who you are.

I believe healing begins with feeling genuinely seen and understood. I bring warmth, curiosity, humor, and real conversation into the therapy room, creating space for all parts of your story while helping you build a stronger relationship with yourself.

Our first session is a chance for us to get to know one another and begin understanding what brings you to therapy. We’ll talk about what has been happening in your life, what feels most important right now, and what you hope might be different, while also making space for the identities, relationships, experiences, and parts of your history that feel meaningful to who you are.

You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what to say or where to begin. I’ll bring questions, curiosity, and conversation to help us find our way together, at a pace that feels comfortable to you. By the end, my hope is that you feel heard and understood, with a clearer sense of what we might explore together and where we can begin.