My Approach

I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #156139 at Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health, supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493.

As a therapist, I bring a collaborative, trauma-informed approach that seeks to deeply listen to and honor your experience, while helping you get in touch with your innate resources for healing and empowerment. My training and approaches are diverse and draw from Internal Family Systems, somatics, psychodynamics, humanistic, feminist, and relational approaches, but the mainstays are unconditional acceptance of you and a genuine desire to be with you in your experience, especially when things are hard. My identities as Chinese American, mixed race, femme and Queer also inform the critical consciousness that I bring to clinical work.

Who I Work With

• Polyamorous, Non-Monogamous and/or Kinky People, from the questioning to the veterans, who want a knowledgeable therapist who affirms the validity of your desires, identity and choices. I also work with current and former Sex Workers, as well as their clients

• Empaths and Highly Sensitive People who may have been shamed and internalized a belief that there is something wrong with you. I frequently work with people who tend to give too much in relationships and don’t feel seen for who they truly are, who struggle with boundaries and self-esteem, and generally feel lonely and disconnected

• High Achievers who wish to heal from the damaging toll of burnout, perfectionism and people-pleasing on self-esteem and relationships

• Couples in sexual disconnection who want to restore deeper trust and intimacy, improve communication, and grow into more secure attachment with self and each other. I also work with polycules and partners in non-dyadic structures.

Many of my clients would describe themselves as empathic, intuitive, highly sensitive, gifted and/or neurodivergent. Most are LGBTQ+ and BIPOC or white people actively engaging their whiteness in healing. Many see themselves as generational cycle-breakers, working on transmuting and healing patterns that didn’t start with them.

Topics I tend to explore with people: healing from shame, codependency, people-pleasing, wounding from narcissistic/borderline patterns in family and loved ones and the impact of patriarchy and white supremacy on self and relationships; deepening your erotic relationship to yourself to have an empowered, shame-free sexuality; getting more in touch with your needs and boundaries and strengthening your voice; having healthier, more mutual and rewarding relationships

How It Works

I offer weekly and biweekly telehealth services to individual and relationship therapy clients in the state of California. As an out-of-state clinician who resides in Vermont, I am not able to see clients in person. For information about my rates and availability, please send me an e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you!