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Let's start from a place of curiosity and observation as we nurture your connection to your internal wisdom, shed light on your values and freely explore all parts of you. I will teach you new concepts, encourage you to reconsider old narratives, and provide you with practical tools to use. Together, we will explore difficult emotions, memories, and experiences that you may find painful to bear alone.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of bringing your attention to the present moment without judgment. As you pay attention to your present experience, you will gain valuable information about your feelings, sensations and thoughts. We spend so much time living in the past and worrying about the future that we often forget to live in the present. By practicing mindfulness, we can reduce suffering by finding peace in the present moment.
We learn to become less afraid of uncomfortable feelings and thoughts by increasing our ability to be curious about them. It can reduce anxiety, stress, and fatigue. In our work together in therapy, we will do guided meditations, mindfulness exercises and explore ways to integrate self-compassion.
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Immigration is a major focus of my clinical practice as a therapist. Together we will explore the following aspects of the immigrant experience as well as other aspects that might be unique to you. The whys and hows of juggling the nature of our complex identities. The trauma our parents and previous generations experienced and how it continues to affect us. The search for community and individuality. The rules of dos and donts that don’t seem to apply to anyone else. The guilt and shame we get lost in when we feel our parents sacrificed in vain. The complicated feelings we might feel when we realize we are thriving instead of surviving.The struggle to show what we actually feel. The responsibility we feel to end cycles of trauma.
- Immigrant experience
- Inter-generational trauma
- Children of immigrant parents
Immigrant Issues
when your experience just feels different
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When we experience trauma it is often very difficult to live in the present. We often feel numb, unsafe, and deeply unhappy. EMDR is a form of therapy that can help you heal from these disturbing past experiences and learn to regulate your nervous system. EMDR involves recalling disturbing memories and reprocessing them by using bi-lateral stimulation such as side to side eye movement or physical stimulation. It can be frightening to recall traumatic memories but EMDR is designed to help you feel as safe as possible in the healing process and feel relief from trauma symptoms.
- EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Trauma
finding where to start with processing trauma
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If you have found yourself in the throes of conflict with someone else, whether it’s a romantic partner, a family member, or even just a friend, you may benefit from improved communication, understanding, and empathy to find the best way to improve how you’re feeling in the relationship.
- Interpersonal skills
- Friendships/romantic relationships
- Relationships with those who are mentally ill (personality disorders, substance use, mental health issues)
Relationship Issues
working through it together
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Another way I love to help with Identity is with figuring out identity around “the hyphen” (for example Asian-American; balancing both having immigrant parents and cultural upbringing and also assimilating to American culture) Check out immigrant issues if you haven’t made it there yet!
- Career paths
- Adoptee identity issues
- Coming of age identity issues
- Self esteem/self worth
- International students
- Biracial or multi-racial identity issues
- Intersectionality of identities
Identity Issues
Figuring out who you are is hard, and even harder when you feel like you need to fit into a box.
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Figuring out who you are is hard, and even harder when you feel like you need to fit into a box. Whether you’re in your twenties and navigating post-grad, navigating your gender or spiritual identity, facing a major life transition (like getting married, having kids, caring for aging parents, or changing careers) who you are is always in flux. Figuring out your relationship with yourself is an important step in being able to work through whatever might be going on in your life.
We experience grief in many different ways. You might feel grief after losing a loved one, but you may also be grieving past experiences or changes in identity or life circumstances. We can experience grief even when there are exciting changes such as becoming a new parents and feeling like you have lost a sense of who you were prior to becoming a parent. You might not know when you’ll feel better, or why it’s still so hard. You might feel like you should feel better already, but you don’t, and juggling all of that alongside the loss itself is that much harder.
- Family/friends loss/death
- Pet loss/death
- Client loss/death
- Changes in identity or life circumstances
Grief and Loss
The ever-changing journey with grief
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Healing through Non-ordinary states of consciousness
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Ketamine assisted therapy is a non-traditional tool used to help client’s gain relief. Sometimes talk therapy is not enough and using Ketamine to enter a less guarded space can be helpful in processing trauma, emotions, and pain. It can be used to work through depression, anxiety, and PTSD or C-PTSD. In my practice, we would utilize ketamine to supplement talk therapy.
