I graduated from the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s in Counseling and Mental Health Services (M.S.Ed.) and a Master’s in Professional Counseling (M.Phil.Ed.). I have experience working with adults with diverse backgrounds, providing bilingual services (i.e., Mandarin and English), addressing a wide range of client problems, and managing different platforms for conducting therapy.

With a strenuous undergraduate psychological research background from Claremont Mckenna College, I believe in evidence-based interventions and research-guided theoretical orientations. My primary school of practice is Schema Therapy, with integrative perspectives from Internal Family System, Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioral, and Feminist Therapy. My specialties and clinical interests lie in trauma, cross-cultural adjustment, sexuality, grief, interpersonal relationships, etc.

As a cisgender lesbian growing up in an Asian society, my experience led me to explore psychopathology and mental well-being layered by sociocultural factors, strengthening my approaches to therapy through an interdisciplinary and multicultural lens. Therapy, to me, is an opportunity to be seen and heard freely and loudly. There is a great triumph in finding new meanings in the past, present, and future, and my job as the therapist is to make that process less scary and more collaborative.