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Online Therapy Across Massachusetts.
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Specializing in…
Anxiety
Life can feel lighter than it is today - rediscover you - love, happiness, & peace.
Grief
Pay homage to your pains & losses - pathways to reverence, honor, and renewed joy.
Trauma
Reclaim your sense of well-being from painful experiences - back to safety & belonging.
Specializing in…
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Life can feel lighter than it is today - rediscover you - love, happiness, & peace.
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My background
For over 20 years, I have been a student of Buddhism at the East Bay Meditation Center - a welcoming place that centers LGBTQ, BIPOC, folks with disabilities and other underrepresented communities for personal & interpersonal healing, inclusive community building, and social engagement. I have done extended retreats within the Theravāda Buddhist lineage at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, various international Vipassana Centers. Deep bows to my primary Buddhist teachers - Larry Yang, Mushim Ikeda, and Sean Feit Oakes.
Through my clinical training since 2006, I have had the privilege to learn, grow, grieve, and laugh with folks challenged with severe mental illness in community mental health. For over 7 years, I supported countless folks and their families confronted with death & dying in a hospice & palliative care non-profit.
Nowadays in my humble private practice, I weave secular mindfulness and somatic-based therapies with ancient Buddhist lineages and practices towards individual, familial, cultural, and collective healing.
My own healing journey informs my approaches to healing; the two cannot be separate
I born in the tropics of Taiwan before migrating as a child to the US. I - along with my family and ancestors - know the potential fortunes in movement - as well as direct experiences of fear, powerlessness, isolation, and powerlessness in various places to be others, to not belong, and to not be seen or valued.
Over 20 years ago I began caregiving for a loved one with severe mental illness. This brought me to therapy, somatic practices, and meditation for my own grieving and healing. Over time, this healing journey led me to become a therapist. I bring a deep pool of capacity and compassion to be with the emotional anguish & the existential pain that can manifest - in you, your loved ones, and your communities & systems.
Nowadays, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in unceded Bay Miwok land, with my family and beloved community. My other daily love offerings are being a queer dad & a husband, a son & a sibling, and an engaged member/neighbor in my co-housing community. These deep interconnections are direct grounds to practice loving-kindness and care, belonging, and embodiment in myself, family, systems & communities, and ancestry.
All these aspects of my background inform my work as a therapist. I welcome all the varied aspects of your background to enter our work together - for composting and care, for honoring and belonging.
About Me
Through my clinical training since 2006, I have had the privilege to learn, grow, grieve, and laugh with folks challenged with severe mental illness in community mental health. For over 7 years, I supported countless folks and their families confronted with death & dying in a hospice & palliative care non-profit.
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For over 20 years, I have been a student of Buddhism at the East Bay Meditation Center - a welcoming place that centers LGBTQ, BIPOC, folks with disabilities and other underrepresented communities for personal & interpersonal healing, inclusive community building, and social engagement. I have done extended retreats within the Theravāda Buddhist lineage at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, various international Vipassana Centers. Deep bows to my primary Buddhist teachers - Larry Yang, Mushim Ikeda, and Sean Feit Oakes.
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I was born in the tropics of Taiwan before immigrating as a child to the US. I - along with my family and ancestors - know the potential fortunes in movement - as well as direct experiences of fear, powerlessness, isolation, and powerlessness in various places to be others, to not belong, and to not be seen or valued.
Over 20 years ago I began caregiving for a loved one with severe mental illness. This brought me to therapy, somatic practices, and meditation for my own grieving and healing. Over time, this healing journey led me to become a therapist. I bring a deep pool of capacity and compassion to be with the emotional anguish & the existential pain that can manifest - in you, your loved ones, and your communities & systems.
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Nowadays, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in unceded Bay Miwok land, with my family and beloved community. My other daily love offerings are being a queer dad & a husband, a son & a sibling, and an engaged member/neighbor in my co-housing community. These deep interconnections are direct grounds to practice loving-kindness and care, belonging, and embodiment in myself, family, systems & communities, and ancestry.
All these aspects of my background inform my work as a therapist. I welcome all the varied aspects of your background to enter our work together - for composting and care, for honoring and belonging.
Nowadays in my humble private practice, I weave secular mindfulness and somatic-based therapies with ancient Buddhist lineages and practices towards individual, familial, cultural, and collective healing.
My own healing journey informs my approaches to healing; the two cannot be separate
Does this sound familiar?
SOMETHING HAS YOU FEELING OFF
You are a hardworking adult who gives it your all.
You want to feel good, connected, and supported.
But instead, It never feels good enough!
You are exhausted & overwhelmed day & night.
You find yourself constantly running on empty or on edge.
Simple tasks like scheduling and eating feel like chores,
You can’t even enjoy a night out if it happens at all.
You get along with others, and so many people and communities rely on you.
And yet, you feel like you don’t belong, or those you love don’t really see you. Let’s not even start with our society and world.
You may move in & out of anxiety
You may despair with the state of upheaval with systems, the climate, & the world.
You may have lost loved ones and/or ancestors to the pandemic, war, or displacement.
Perhaps you feel the impact of these experiences on yourself & your loved ones.
Perhaps you ache, or ache to feel instead of numb or avoid.
No matter how accomplished or successful you are,
feelings of inadequacy and otherness remain constant.
My ode to you…
Does this sound familiar?
Something has you feeling off…
You are a hardworking adult who gives it your all.
You want to feel good, connected, and supported.
But instead, It never feels good enough!
You are exhausted & overwhelmed day & night.
You find yourself constantly running on empty or on edge.
Simple tasks like scheduling and eating feel like chores.
You can’t even enjoy a night out if it happens at all.
You get along with others, and so many people and communities rely on you.
And yet, you feel like you don’t belong, or those you love don’t really see you.
Let’s not even start with our society and world.
Fellow wounded traveler, you are welcome here.
You may move in & out of anxiety.
You may despair with the state of upheaval with systems, the climate, & the world.
You may have lost loved ones and/or ancestors to the pandemic, war, or displacement.
Perhaps you feel the impact of these experiences on yourself & your loved ones.
Perhaps you ache, or ache to feel instead of numb or avoid.
No matter how accomplished or successful you are,
feelings of inadequacy and otherness remain constant.
Fellow wounded traveler, you belong here.
May your heart, mind, and body restore.
I greet you - where you and your family have been.
I greet you - where you and your ancestors have gone.
I greet you - towards where you can go -
towards discovery, embodiment, and belonging.
You have your own lived experiences with individual, familial, systemic, intergenerational, and ancestral stressors & traumas…. and healings too.
This is your soil for tending & healing.
SE can help with a variety of problems related to trauma and stress:
Anxiety
Depression
Chronic Pain
Grief & loss
PTSD & complex PTSD
Relationship issues - developmental & current.
Feeling stuck with shame
Self-esteem, worth, & belief.
Accidents & surgeries
Therapy with me is not…
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Therapy with me is…
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Experience shifts
to…
strength & vulnerability
buoyancy & appreciation
life reviewing, sharing, mourning, & rejoicing
presence with elderhood & ancestry
spoken richness & embodied presence
acceptance of you and what you went through
from…
powerlessness
heaviness & stagnation
keeping things at bay
overwhelm & dissociation
disorientation
crisis of loss
My core values
Growth
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Honesty
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Safety
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Depth
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Compassion
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Does this sound familiar?
Something has you feeling OFF.
You are a hardworking adult who gives it your all.
You want to feel good, connected, and supported.
But instead, It never feels good enough!
You are exhausted & overwhelmed day & night.
You find yourself constantly running on empty or on edge.
Simple tasks like scheduling and eating feel like chores,
You can’t even enjoy a night out if it happens at all.
You get along with others, and so many people and communities rely on you.
And yet, you feel like you don’t belong, or those you love don’t really see you. Let’s not even start with our society and world.
You may move in & out of anxiety
You may despair with the state of upheaval with systems, the climate, & the world.
You may have lost loved ones and/or ancestors to the pandemic, war, or displacement.
Perhaps you feel the impact of these experiences on yourself & your loved ones.
Perhaps you ache, or ache to feel instead of numb or avoid.
No matter how accomplished or successful you are,
feelings of inadequacy and otherness remain constant.
Fellow wounded traveler, you belong here.
Your heart, mind, & body can restore.
I greet you - where you & your family have been.
I greet you - where you & your ancestors have gone.
discover your inner zest for life.
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discover your inner zest for life. —
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