I am a multicultural doctoral-level psychotherapist who sits at the intersection of being American, Chinese, and Puerto Rican. Growing up as the eldest child in my family meant carrying the expectations, responsibilities, dreams, hopes, and fears of my loved ones, projected onto me before I even had the words for them. I knew deep in my bones that I needed to create the kind of practice I would dream of being part of. One rooted in care, depth, honesty, and real community, that takes access seriously and treats education and the whole person as part of the healing process.

I specialize in working with individuals navigating trauma and PTSD, anxiety and depression, OCD, burnout, people pleasing, intergenerational, systemic, and cultural wounds, identity, neurodivergence, alexithymia, and the exhaustion of being the one everyone else leans on. She proudly and without judgment serves members of the LGBTQIA+ community, BIPOC individuals, immigrants, and first-, second-, and third-generation Americans, and anyone whose life or identity has not always been held with the utmost care and consideration in traditional therapeutic settings.

I have spent my career working alongside some of the most marginalized communities in New York and New Jersey in settings including NYC Health + Hospitals, Rikers Island, and Greystone Psychiatric Hospital. Currently, I am completing my doctoral internship at the VA New Jersey Health Care System, supporting veterans and their families.

My research has focused on culture, stigma, emotion, trauma, and the expansion of access to care. My doctoral dissertation examines expressive writing and mindfulness as interventions for alexithymia, emotional granularity, and avoidance, exploring how people learn to identify, name, and make room for their feelings through embodiment.

That work shaped everything about how I show up as a clinician and the founder of Lianyue. I'm continually inspired by the way Eastern and Western modalities can hold each other, each offering something the other cannot reach alone. That inspiration is rooted in something deeper, too: a belief, both inherited and earned, that healing happens in relationship rather than in isolation or in technique alone. That we are connected to each other, to our lineages, to our history, and to something larger than any one modality can hold. I refuse to choose between them. I built my practice, Lianyue, intentionally so that we don’t have to.