Long before the titles, I was already doing the work. I was the person people came to when they felt unsafe in themselves, when they needed somewhere to set down the weight of their lives without being told how to carry it differently or dismissed for acknowledging that they are carrying anything at all. That instinct toward deep connection and holding space without judgment has never left me. It has become the foundation of everything I do in my practice.

I became a therapist because I believe people deserve to be met as a whole, not as a diagnosis, not as a presenting problem, and not as their symptoms, but as someone shaped by their history, their body, their culture, their environment, and the systems they move through. Most approaches just treat the symptoms, but I treat the symptoms and the whole person beneath them.

My work draws on clinical and counseling psychology, somatic practice, and the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine, because the whole person requires a whole approach. Healing that does not just account for the body, for lineage, for the structural forces that shape our inner lives, is healing that only goes so far.

When someone leaves a session with me, I want them to carry something real, a sense of being seen, of being understood without condition, of knowing that even in the darkest parts of their journey, something is shifting. That is the work and always has been.