Virtual therapy and executive coaching for Asian American professionals in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. Navigating imposter syndrome, self-worth, attachment issues, and the psychological demands of high achievement.
This page is dedicated to first-generation college students and professionals who grew up in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles Chinatowns.
To those who grew up in unstable, emotionally unsafe households.
To those now facing their deepest fears and the beliefs that once kept them safe, and choosing to heal.
I'm a second generation Chinese American who grew up in the Bay Area in an immigrant household. For a long time, I was a kid trying to make sense of a home that felt unpredictable and emotionally unsafe.
My parents ran a restaurant, worked long hours, and carried trauma from the Cultural Revolution that they never really processed. Those unprocessed experiences influenced everything: the way they responded to conflict, the anxiety they carried around work and money, the way they showed up as parents. Survival mode was all they knew.
I learned early to stay quiet, manage everyone's emotions, and not cause problems.
My parents loved me. They sacrificed enormously. But emotional attunement wasn't something they could offer because no one had offered it to them.
Like many second-generation Asian American kids, I coped by achieving and pushing down my emotions. I internalized the belief that my needs were a burden. By my mid-twenties, I was struggling with constant anxiety and couldn't understand why external success wasn't making anything better internally.
Therapy changed that. Working with a therapist who understood intergenerational trauma and the dynamics of immigrant families helped me see how I got stuck in these patterns. That experience became the foundation for the work I do now.
Today, I work with high-achieving adults whose stories often mirror my own. Most of my clients understand their patterns intellectually but still feel stuck emotionally, falling back into the same safety behaviors they developed during childhood. My approach is relational, culturally informed, and focused on what can only shift inside a consistent, attuned therapeutic relationship. My doctoral research on shame and self-esteem in Chinese-American families deepened my understanding of the pressures that shape both generations.
My mission is to create the same kind of transformative space that allowed me to heal: a place where performance isn't required, where your emotions finally make sense, and where you can build patterns that actually serve the life you want to live.
In December 2024, I visited my paternal grandparents' memorial in Shenzhen with my parents, my brother, and several relatives. Standing there, looking out at the ocean, I saw my immigrant parents clearly for the first time: their aging, their decades of sacrifice, and the emotional cost of an immigrant story that so many families carry alone.
I wrote about that visit, what I saw, and why it drives the work I do.
Areas where I provide specialized, evidence-based therapeutic support
Often, the most difficult part of succeeding at a high level is managing your own psychology. When you're mentally taxed, your insecurities like fear of failure and limiting beliefs are easily triggered. I work with professionals who are managing imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and burnout, and explore the thoughts and assumptions driving your decisions.
Attachment therapy is an area I'm passionate about. I work with adults who find themselves overthinking in dating, stuck in familiar patterns, or shaped by early emotional dynamics. We work to understand and transform these patterns rather than just managing symptoms.
As someone who grew up with volatile and unpredictable parents, I know what it's like to constantly "walk on eggshells." Growing up with critical, unpredictable, or emotionally distant parents leaves a lasting imprint. I offer empathic support to help you understand how your childhood experiences shaped who you are today, so you can process emotional neglect, develop healthier boundaries, and restructure old relational patterns that no longer serve you.
As someone raised by a parent with high-functioning ASD, I bring lived experience to supporting neurodivergent adults and those affected by neurodivergent family members. Exploring how neurodivergence intersected with family dynamics to shape your confidence, sense of self, and relational patterns.
Growing up between two cultures shaped who I am. I work with clients navigating family expectations, intergenerational trauma, and the weight of balancing multiple worlds.
Often our deepest insecurities, fears, and core beliefs were derived from the first 18 years of our lives. In therapy, I use the therapy relationship itself to reshape these deeply ingrained relational attitudes. 12 months of treatment would be considered short-term, and many of my clients work with me for multiple years. It is through the aggregate process of therapy contact that enduring change occurs.
I go deeper into this question, including the research behind long-term psychodynamic work and why I ask for a 1x a week cadence, on my FAQ page.
I provide secure, confidential telehealth therapy and executive coaching throughout California, serving Asian American professionals across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and beyond.
I work with high-achieving professionals throughout Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles who are committed to depth-oriented therapy and understand that real structural psychological change requires time, sustained effort, and the right therapeutic relationship.
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