Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy simply means talk therapy for your mental health. But that's the surface of it. What actually matters is the encounter itself, two people fully present with one another, willing to look honestly at what's there. Hollis puts it well: "Psyche is a Greek word for soul... Therapeuein means 'to listen or attend to psyche, the soul'" (2023). So therapy isn't advice-giving. It's a place to finally listen to yourself, maybe for the first time, and to the parts of you that carry more wisdom than you've ever given them credit for. Modern life pulls us away from our own depths, our calling, our sense of purpose, in a hundred small ways every day. Psychotherapy is one way back. Not something you receive. Something you take part in, a human connection where change becomes possible.

Does Psychotherapy work?

A seminal meta-analysis found that psychotherapy helps people feel better, showing roughly 75% improvement compared to control groups regardless of the specific approach or type of therapy used (Smith & Glass, 1977). Since then, researchers have continued to find that the therapeutic relationship itself, more than any technique, is the strongest predictor of successful outcomes (Norcross & Lambert, 2018). In other words, psychotherapy works best when two people build something real together… a relationship that is honest, collaborative, and healing.

My Approach

  • Therapy, at its core, is a genuine human encounter between two people, not a technique applied to a patient. I bring my full, authentic self into the room, including my own reactions and presence, because I believe real change happens in the immediacy of real connection, not from behind a professional mask. Our relationship itself: honest, mutual, and alive, is the therapy.

  • Humanistic, Existential, Relational, Experiential, Mindfulness-based, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Behavioral orientation.

  • 1x1 PRIVATE SESSIONS

    I offer adult individual psychotherapy

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  • MY FOCUS

    Anxiety, Trauma, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation, Relationships, Panic Attacks, Self-Esteem, and Asian American Issues