Vivian Nguyen

You may be doing everything you can to keep life moving while quietly feeling overwhelmed underneath it all. Anxiety can keep your mind constantly running, cultural or relationship stress can leave you feeling caught between different expectations, and women’s or identity related concerns may make it difficult to feel fully understood by the people around you. I work with adults and adolescents experiencing anxiety, cultural and ethnic concerns, relationship issues, women’s issues, and identity issues. These experiences can also overlap with stress, depression, family concerns, grief or loss, or major life transitions, especially when your culture, relationships, responsibilities, and sense of self are all influencing one another. Therapy can give you a space where you do not have to separate these different parts of yourself to be understood. Together, we can make sense of what has been weighing on you, strengthen your connection with yourself, and help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Our work will make room for both the person you are and the relationships, culture, identity, responsibilities, and experiences that have shaped you. We’ll explore how anxiety, cultural and ethnic concerns, relationship issues, women’s issues, and identity concerns may be affecting your emotional wellbeing and sense of self. I may use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you recognize patterns in thoughts and behaviors that contribute to distress and develop healthier ways of responding, Internal Family Systems to help you understand different parts of yourself with greater curiosity and compassion, and Narrative Therapy to explore the stories you have developed about yourself and make room for perspectives that better reflect who you are today. Multicultural Therapy can help us understand your experiences within the context of your culture, family, and community, while Solution Focused Brief Therapy can help us identify your strengths and turn the changes you want into practical steps forward. Our sessions will be collaborative, culturally responsive, and grounded in the reality of your life rather than expecting you to fit into a predetermined version of therapy.

You do not need to have every part of yourself figured out before coming to therapy. During our first few sessions, we will take time to understand what has brought you here, what has been weighing on you, and what you hope will feel different. Together, we will create goals that feel meaningful and realistic while deciding where it makes the most sense to begin. You can expect me to bring warmth, empathy, and genuine curiosity to our conversations while creating a space where your culture, identity, relationships, and experiences are respected and understood. Progress may look like feeling less consumed by anxiety, communicating more openly in your relationships, developing healthier boundaries, feeling more confident navigating cultural or family expectations, or building a stronger sense of who you are and what you need. We will continue checking in on your goals and shape our work around what helps you feel more grounded, understood, and confident in yourself.