Culturally-informed therapy, centering Asian, BIPOC, polyamorous & LGBTQ+ folx

In person in San Francisco, virtually for residents of California

Welcome

My practice is dedicated to all who have been marginalized by dominant culture— those who’ve had to code-switch or hide parts of themselves in order to fit in. In therapy, I accompany you on a journey toward liberation, reclaiming your power, and greater connection in your relationships and to your communities. I specialize in serving clients who identify as

  • Asian, BIPOC, multi-cultural/racial, third-culture, immigrants

  • LGBTQ+, polyamorous or non-monogamous

  • Inter-racial and inter-cultural couples(+)

  • Neurodivergent

Learn more about my work with individuals, couples(+) and teens.

My Approach

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I practice from a relational psychoanalytic and liberation psychology lens, which focuses on deep listening, your social and historical contexts, and uplifting the marginalized parts of you, so that therapy addresses the root causes and multiple meanings of your symptoms, toward creating the life and relationships you truly desire.

My perspectives on therapy are grounded in experiences of migrations and acculturation across continents, classes, and disciplines.  Prior to training in Integral Counseling Psychology, I lived and worked as an academic in STEM in Canada, the US, and Denmark.  Originally from British Hong Kong, I have a double consciousness of cultural differences between East and West, and I bring to therapy cultural humility and awareness of the impact of history, ancestry, race, class, and gender on your lived experiences and relationship dynamics.

In concert with the liberation psychologies of the Global South, I tend to locate pathology not in the individual but in the social and political forces that shape us.  With this perspective psychology facilitates both individual and collective transformation.

Orientations I draw from: Decolonial, Fanonian, Gestalt, Hakomi, Jungian, Liberation, Nondual, Psychoanalytic, Relational, Somatic 

“The clinician is as much a link between the collective and the individual as much as between the unconscious and conscious.”

— Caesar Hakim, as quoted in  Psychoanalysis Under Occupation, Practicing Resistance in Palestine

Offices

  • Downtown Office Building

    Downtown Office Building

  • Downtown Office

    Downtown Office

  • Pac Heights Office Building

    Pacific Heights Office Building

  • Pacific Heights Office

    Pacific Heights Office

Downtown Office 870 Market St, San Francisco, 94102. ADA access, by Powell St.

 

Pacific Heights Office 1781 Union St, San Francisco, 94123. Street Parking, MUNI access

 

I also see clients residing anywhere in California virtually, via phone or zoom.

Let’s explore working together.