My Approach
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I sincerely believe you are the expert in what feels right and true to yourself.
My role, as I see it, is to be by your side as you examine parts of yourself that are painful or difficult to face alone. I shine a warm light—respectfully and at your pace—on experiences, emotions, and beliefs that have yet to be examined. I seek to deepen understanding of emotional and relational pain, and to expand upon sources of strength, expression, connection, and beauty.
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Listening to how my clients express themselves gives me insight into their internal world, and I enjoy bringing safety and continuity to the space we share. I focus on presence and flow while simultaneously knitting the present to past context and future possibility. I value the capacity to hold multiple realities and perspectives, and to integrate process and content with compassion and empathy.
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My deep desire is to accompany my clients as they cultivate an internal and external sense of home. I enjoy bringing light to the forces that constrict people’s authentic selves. With self-knowledge comes the opportunity for autonomy and choice. With self-knowledge—cognitive, emotional, somatic, contextual—comes a rootedness that allows for courage and vulnerability in creativity, expression, intimacy, and belonging.
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My approach is integrative, collaborative, and psychodynamic, and is influenced by mindfulness and attachment theory, emotional focusing, and somatic awareness. As the daughter of Japanese and Korean immigrants, I am keenly aware of identity, racial or ethnic, and immigration or generational issues; and as a former musician, I have extensive experience with issues around creativity, self-expression, and performance.
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Whatever the areas of growth you bring to the therapeutic space, my priority is to hold an empathic, non-judgmental, inclusive space in which you feel safe and deeply seen.