About Me
You have a story to tell, especially if it hasn’t been heard before. Your life experiences shouldn’t feel minimized. My vision is for minorities and other marginalized individuals to feel safe in a therapeutic space. As a minority identifying therapist and child of immigrants, my lived experiences help me connect with my clients on a deeper level. I have a passion for serving adults who identify as BIPOC, minorities, first generation and immigrant individuals, college students, adoptees, and parents who would like additional support navigating behavioral challenges and regulatory skills with their child(ren). My area of specialization is developmental trauma, particularly foster and adoptive families.
My approach to therapy is to collaborate with my clients, help them achieve their goals and empower them to find healing and emotional well-being. I have received the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Phase I training developed by Dr. Bruce Perry, Training for Adoption Competency (TAC), Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) and am IFS (Internal Family Systems) informed through the IFS Institute. I want to help you achieve your goals. You deserve to live a peaceful, joyful, and fulfilling life.
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As an immigrant or adult child of immigrants, you may find yourself struggling to find inner peace and healing from childhood experiences such as trauma, generational trauma, parentification, bullying, abuse/neglect, and reversal of roles. You may also feel overwhelmed by your intersecting identities or family of origin dynamics.
As an adoptee, you may still experience difficulty with regulating your emotions, connecting in your relationships, or may have questions about your complex trauma, adoption process, birth family, and attachment. You might wonder where you fit in your “life book”.
As an adult with anxiety, feelings of worry may consume your thoughts across various life domains (personal, academic, professional, social, etc). You probably question a lot of the decisions you are faced with. You try to seek perfection and be a high achieving individual.
As an adult who recently experienced a significant adjustment in your life, you may have a hard time trying to manage and make sense of this change. Feelings can include confusion, overwhelm, fear, indecisiveness, among various others.
As a college or graduate student, you might be feeling out of place, academic pressure, homesickness, stress, issues with friends, or lack of motivation. This new phase in your life as a young adult is challenging to balance.
As an adult with depression, you may feel “down in the dumps”, functioning at a bare minimum or feeling drained by the end of each day. You may have feelings of helplessness, worthlessness and hopelessness.
As a parent, you may feel helpless and defeated with managing your child or teen’s behaviors. You might feel disconnected from your child or not quite know how to help them work through their feelings. Co-regulation is something that seems so out of reach.
If any of the above statements resonate with you, please reach out to me.
