As a domestic transracial adoptee, I am intimately familiar with the lack of adoptee awareness in the mental health field and beyond. I am passionate about supporting adoptees through authentic identity development, attachment trauma, and “coming out of the fog." I have extensively researched the biopsychosocial impacts of adoption, and completed the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training program.

Being a queer non-binary person, I’m grateful to provide support to those in my community, including therapy and gender-affirming surgery letters. I recognize the harmful impacts of cisheteronormativity on mental health and wellbeing. We can process experiences with oppression while also making room for euphoria and authenticity in your identity.

I often work with multiracial/multicultural folks, members of the Asian diaspora and other people of color seeking a therapist with shared identities (I am biracial and Vietnamese). I’m committed to antiracism and solidarity with all oppressed people, including BIPOC. Our work can involve exploring your racial and cultural identities – naming the harms of Othering, and fostering the joys of community.

Neurodivergence is not a condition to be “treated” – it’s simply a different way of thinking, perceiving, and being in the world. Broadly, the concept of disability is socially constructed through a lack of adequate support/resources.

Through this externalized framework, we can identify your needs, challenge learned ableism and shame, and begin to navigate the world unapologetically.

I’m neurodivergent myself and want you to also show up just as you are. Stimming and comfy clothes/positions, always encouraged. Masking and eye contact, never required.

Living in a carceral, capitalist, White supremacist state is traumatic. It is a daily fight – for safety, and against exploitation. Multiply marginalized people experience compounding risks and effects of trauma, which can occur structurally, institutionally, and interpersonally (often within the family system).

Trauma under these material conditions is rarely one-dimensional. It may go unrecognized for a time, because safety adaptations can mask acute symptoms from presenting like typical “post-traumatic stress.”

My approach to trauma involves education, assessment of psychosocial history, cognitive restructuring, attachment theory, narrative and parts work. We might examine core beliefs and learned behaviors, deconstruct their origin stories, and develop compassionate new ways of thinking and being. Autonomy and empathy are paramount to this process.

Note that I practice from a relational, trauma- and attachment-informed approach, and am not formally trained in modalities such as EMDR, IFS, somatic experiencing, etc.