About me
My perspectives on therapy were shaped by 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 experience.
I have a deep affinity for serving Asians and Asian-Americans, BIPOC, polyamorous, and LGBTQ+ folx, and for those in intercultural and inter-racial relationships navigating power differentials and cultural differences.
I practice from a relational psychoanalytic and liberation psychology lens, which means I listen deeply, and attune to your social and historical contexts. Together, we’ll give attention to the marginalized or silenced parts of you, so that therapy can address the root causes and layered meanings of your symptoms, towards creating the life and relationships you truly desire.
I tend to locate pathology not in the individual but in the social and political forces that shape us. With this perspective therapy facilitates not only individual but also 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
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