My approaches

I am dedicated to promoting a safe space for you to be heard and seen. I firmly believe that you have adaptive potential and massive resources for your own healing that can be found and nurtured in therapy. I strive to alleviate suffering with compassion while genuinely being open about here-and-now experiences. Your self-growth, insight, and self-compassion are highlighted and empowered in this space.

I also work with couples to help build and re-build emotional connection, fostering deeper understanding, trust, and intimacy. Through exploring patterns of communication, emotional vulnerabilities, and unmet needs, I guide partners in creating stronger, more secure bonds. Whether you’re navigating conflict, healing from past hurts, or simply looking to deepen your connection, I aim to create a safe space where both partners can feel seen, heard, and valued.

I utilize a range of therapeutic approaches, including brief psychodynamic therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), relational-cultural therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). I emphasize the mind-body connection, drawing on somatic psychology, and incorporate parts work from an internal family systems framework. Informed by the psychology of radical healing and liberation psychotherapy, I strive to create a space for deep personal and collective healing.

The right facilitating environment established in therapy is a liberating and non-judgmental space for clients to experiment with new ways of relating to others and themselves.

  • I help immigrant adults with their relationships with family, intergenerational trauma, or cultural identity transitions.

  • Based on my background in twice-exceptional learners and work psychology, I help with the career, relationship, and emotional and behavioral concerns of highly intelligent or high-achieving adults.

  • 한국어, 영어 모두 가능합니다.

  • I am a therapist with a warm presence, sharp observation skills, and broad and open worldviews.

  • My goal is to be an emotionally, culturally, and contextually responsive therapist.

Clients I met came to therapy for issues like

Parent-child relationship across the lifespan

Romantic relationship

Workplace relationship

Imposter phenomenon and perfectionism

High achieving anxiety and depression

Job search or unemployment stress

Loss and grieving

Childhood trauma

Therapy for therapists

Finding your own “Koreanness” through identity and cultural exploration (it can be any “-ness”)

Gender norms and expectations (e.g., women of color’s issues, men and masculinity, parenthood issues)

Body image concerns

Immigrants’ bicultural/multicultural identities

Identity transition or integration (e.g., religion, race, gender, disability, nationality, social class)