Psychotherapy with us looks a lot like being believed for what your experiences are. Many of our clients come in with anxieties, guilt, anger, and loneliness at the forefront of their lives. Throughout the course of therapy, our clients feel that they have the capacity to walk themselves through these experiences so they no longer feel dominated by the same persistent stress, worries, and knee-jerk reactions.
We provide weekly individual therapy. Our clients find themselves wanting to work on:
Family of origin issues (being stuck in an emotional caretaker role, immigrant family dynamics, growing up as the “golden child,” etc.)
Setting and holding to healthy boundaries
Asian American and AAPI intergenerational trauma and patterns
Migration Trauma and imposter syndrom due to societal and cultural pressures
Being really good at being there for others but worry about not being enough
Persistent feelings of guilt, resentment, and/or anger
Feeling behind in life (having a career, being in a relationship, starting a family, etc.)
Trauma recovery
Identity crisis and exploration
Career identity, burnout, and goals
Anxiety and depression
Grief and loss (death of loved one, miscarriage, silent grief/grief unacknowledged/recognized by social norms, etc.)
Loneliness and feeling disconnected with friends and partner(s)
Navigating life as a highly sensitive person
We offer weekly therapy sessions for couples, families, and siblings. Some common goals for therapy include:
Gain clarity of and define the change the relationship wants to see
Understand how cultural, generational, and trauma histories impact their relational dynamics
Work with grief, loss, and disappointment in the relationship's past and present
Repair betrayals, the significant and the minor ones
Reestablish the relationship moving forward
Identify cycles of conflict and how the couple, family, or sibling system perpetuates through a repeated pattern that involves set roles, rules, and boundaries
Learn how to have hard conversations well
Build safety and deepened connection with less reactivity
Looking less to the other person/people as the source of pain and healing. Grow in self-empowerment
Rework how you're taking in information from your partner/parent/sibling and how you express information about yourself
Understanding the difference from one another is okay and safe and meaningful connection is still available
Create space between yourself and other parts of you that want different things
Getting curious, compassionate, and patient with every part of your experience
Body-centered, works with affect regulation and creates lasting neurological shifts/change
Healthy boundaries and relationship with yourself means healthy relationships with others
Following cues from our autonomic nervous system, we can identify three stages of arousal: Relaxed, Mobilized, and Immobilized
By identifying which of the three states we're in and, at times, occupying two states at once, we can adopt and tailor the most helpful responses, enabling us to regulate our emotions and behaviors
Understanding the neurophysiological basis of our social behavior, stress responses, and emotional experiences can increase feelings of safety and connection, supporting overall mental health
Emphasizing your own agency in reaching clarity, direction, and way of being
Becoming really good at spotting your natural abilities and inclinations
Learning to move towards and prioritize potentials for growth
Examining immediate and default thoughts and gut feelings
Identifying core beliefs and assumptions
Actively cultivating and practicing new communicative and problem-solving skills
Experiment with new behaviors
Rooted in attachment theory, the connection, belonging, and safety we seek in our most intimate relationships are also true for ourselves with the different identities within us.
Understanding emotions as trailheads to insight and self-awareness, we recognize them as organically adaptive to basic human needs like survival and our motivational systems. They can be resourced to bond us more deeply or cut us off from one another, usually to protect and defend vulnerabilities.
The key to moving through and out of reactive and rigid patterns is to slow down enough to notice yourself and your partner through a nonjudgmental lens and create safety where hidden parts can be spoken for and received without shame in the relationship.
Although emotions are often the primary target, somatic states, cognitions, and behaviors are an active part of the process, carrying powerful information about the change we long for.
A research-based model that accurately predicts ongoing patterns and outcomes of intimate relationships, this approach emphasizes the importance of having a healthy dialogue about conflict rather than only problem-solving.
Learn how to manage solvable and perpetual conflict through increased empathy, compromise, and successful repair.
Deepen your friendship and intimacy by learning to respond to your partner's pleas for connection and increasing your awareness of your partner's world.
Enhance shared values and meaning of your lives through rituals of connection as a couple and within your family.
