Offerings and Costs
I approach mental health issues through a systemic lens, recognizing the intricate connection between individuals' experiences and their personal, historical, and social contexts. This holistic perspective informs the therapeutic process, allowing me to support individuals in addressing their presenting issues by understanding their past experiences and collaborating on envisioned healing outcomes.
I support individuals, families and groups of the following age groups:
Pre-school (3-5)
School-age children (6-12)
Teens
Young adults
Adults
Elderly people
I work with a wide range of issues including:
Various forms of “anxiety”
“Depression” and other ongoing emotional experiences
Stress management and life transitions
Interpersonal and family relationships
Harm-reduction model of substance use and addictions
I specialize in the following issues.
“Third-culture-kid” experiences
Intergenerational and complex trauma
LGBTQIA+, non-monogamy/polyamory
Navigating the world as a neurodivergent person
Birthing person and parenting experiences
Learn more about my specializations here.
My rate for a 50-minute individual therapy and consultation session is $150 (including taxes).
For those needing longer session time of 80-minutes, or are looking for group and family sessions, my rate is $200 (including taxes).
I reserve 35% of my availability for folks needing sliding-scare service, and my rate starts from $90 (excluding taxes). Priorities of these appointment are reserved for unemployed and underemployed folks of the BIPOC, queer, disabled communities.
***My sliding scale space is currently at max capacity***
Trauma and the Third-Culture-Kid Experience
“I have struggled to prove myself into existence.”
-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
As a third-culture kid myself, I understand that the journey of healing is a shared experience among children of immigrants. Relearning to love ourselves, our families, and reconnecting with our ancestors requires navigating between the individual and the collective, the 'Western' and the 'Homeland'. Along this path, we may stumble many times as we strive to find balance, yet these struggles are integral to the work of breaking intergenerational trauma cycles. In therapy, we aim to discover common ground by creating spaces where all parts of ourselves, even those seemingly irreconcilable, are honored and embraced.
Image Description: a photo of a Chinese family, consisting of a father, mother and a child. The child is Xu, they were eleven in this photo. Their father has glasses and is wearing a white polo shirt with dark blue collars. Their mother is wearing a green top is carrying a shoulder bag on her left. Xu is standing between their parents. They are wearing a denim overall dress with a white t-shirt underneath. This photo was taken in China, at the Du Fu Thached Cottage, in Cheng Du.
LGBTQIA+ experience
“Gender diversity is a natural attribute of human expression, not an illness that needs to be fixed.”
- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
Embracing my identities as a non-binary and queer individual has been instrumental in finding inner peace and self-compassion. With unwavering support and solidarity from my communities, delving into the vast spectrum of queerness, transness, and all expressions of the 'gender cosmos' becomes a journey of healing and humanization. It's this inclusive and nurturing environment that I aspire to create for you."
Image Description: a collage of consisting of a triangular shape with wavy edges, flowers, an arched door way and a purple sand dune at the top. The triangle shape is lime green near the edges and fades to light green towards the centre. It also has black pen drawings of lines and swirls at left and right sides of the shape. On the outer edge of the triangle, there is an orange flower, a pink flower and two stemmed daisies. There is also an arched doorway at the bottom of the triangle and a purple wavy sand dune above the triangle.
Birthing Person and Parenting
”The truth is that [parenthood] is a hero’s journey. For most of us it’s not a journey outward, to the most fantastic and farthest-flung places, but inward, downward, to the deepest parts of your strength, to the innermost buried core of everything you are made of but didn’t know was there.”
-Jessie Klein, I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
I am a birthing person and a parent to a kindergartener. In my experience, growing and raising a human is a painful and spiritual journey. The support I wish to offer for others on the same path is to witness and accompany the silent and invisible labor of love behind every parent’s actions. To heal is to reclaim our intuitions and embrace all of the children, including ourselves, through the 'ultimate mindfulness practice' of being 'good enough'.
Image Description: a collage image of a baby held by two hands. The baby has dark hair and has their eyes closed and out stretched out. The baby’s lower half is wrapped in loose blanket The left hand is below the baby and has flowers growing out of the wrist. The right hand has dead flowers and bones attached to the wrist. The image is against a background of a night sky with stars and nebula clouds.