“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Guiding Principles of my work:
JOY • CONNECTION • TRANSFORMATION
JOY is an essential aspect of healing, fostering vitality within ourselves, our relationships, our communities, and in the world. Joy is meant to be shared and builds bridges across differences.
We have a fundamental CONNECTION to all living beings and to the earth. Collective well-being impacts our personal well-being, and our own healing contributes to collective healing.
Our natural ability to heal guides us toward TRANSFORMATION, liberating our body-mind-spirit. We become empowered to create the life we want to live - rooted in, yet unconstrained by our histories.
Somatic therapy
We are whole, interconnected beings – body, heart, mind, and spirit. We experience everything with, in, and through our bodies. Somatic therapy invites us to move beyond talking into exploring the histories, memories, and patterns held within our bodies. Often, mental and emotional struggles can be processed and released through our bodies by working with breath, movements, postures, sensations, the nervous system, etc. During a session, this might look like noticing bodily sensations, releasing tension through movement, experimenting with different postures, or simply taking deep breaths. Somatic therapy can be particularly effective for processing trauma - from single events to prolonged traumatic experiences.
I offer somatic therapy for individuals, couples, and families. I speak and offer therapy in English and Mandarin Chinese.
My APPROACH
I believe we all have the innate wisdom and resilience to heal, learn, grow, and thrive. Seeking out therapy is a commitment to your healing, and I commit to supporting you on this journey. I approach therapy as a collaborative process that enables you to rediscover your inner resources, release habits that no longer serve you, and form new ways of being in pursuit of the life you want to create. With empathy and curiosity, therapy can be a life-changing process of finding and creating joy, connection, and transformation.
Mindfulness and embodiment are the cornerstones of my practice, and I honor each person as an integration of the body, heart, mind, and spirit situated within cultural and systemic forces. In addition to a focus on somatics, I draw on various modalities to meet your needs, including mindfulness, systemic, relational, transpersonal, and trauma-informed approaches. During sessions, I often incorporate embodied exercises such as breath work, sensory awareness, movement, imagery, and expressive arts into the therapeutic process.
I particularly welcome and have experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds, recognizing and honoring the complex intersection of identities – gender, race, culture, class, sexual orientation, ability, body size, age, immigration status/experience, and more – that shape our experience.
I invite you to reach out for a consultation at no cost.