Therapy for AAPI/BIPOC Professionals & Entrepreneurs
Are you the first person in your family who is building financial stability or even achieving financial freedom?
Are you the first person in your family who has had to veer off the path of certainty because you felt like your soul depended on it?
Are you the person in your family who is challenging unhealthy cultural norms and deeply desiring to disrupt generational cycles?
Have you been banking on the dream that once you land that job or business opportunity, that you will have finally arrived only to feel more anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, empty, and uncertain?
Have you been taught that THE ONLY way to love and work is through self-sacrifice?
Are you exhausted from all the doing, but the idea of resting and being sounds like bullshit?
Are you feeling disconnected from your body from all the doing?
If you answered yes to the above then I may be a good for fit for you!
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Children of immigrant families are often expected to grow up from an early age by having to take care of others emotional, physical, and financial needs by working more than one job and/or translating for and emotionally and financially supporting parents, siblings, cousins, aunties, uncles, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Those ways of pushing through and getting shit done can be rooted in DNA, war, fleeing from the motherland, and colonization which can be reinforced by capitalism. Our survival mode and scarcity mindset are on a mission to achieve financial stability based on our assumption that if we grind then one day:
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We will arrive! We will be loved unconditionally! We can live more of the soft life! We will be able to take care of others in a sustainable way! We will be happy! We will be free! We will be good enough! We will feel at home! We don't have to grind!
Unexpectedly, financial stability unconsciously allows more time and space for all those things 87 things ( or 87 emotions in the English language at least, see Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart) that have been left out of our relationships or unknown to us - can come trickling down, bubbling up, or just straight up taking us out.
How I Can Help You
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Accept all parts of you
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Become your authentic self
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Give yourself permission to ______________________.
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Create balance for your needs in relationships
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Acknowledge and process your childhood trauma
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Navigate career and family transitions
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Clarify your values
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Become empowered to make choices that feel aligned with who you are
Approaches
Psychodynamic
Relational-cultural therapy
Trauma-Informed
Somatic Experiencing
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
LGBTQIA+ Affirming
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About Me
I am a Chinese/Hoi'Saan/Toi'Saan Chinese American, able-bodied, cis woman who has adhd. I would like to share a piece of my story with you. My family was permitted to immigrate to America from a poor village in Hoi'Saan, China after my goong goong and yeh yeh ( my grandfathers) served in the Flying Tigers, the Chinese unit of the U.S. Army during WWII. ​Our generations and their contexts shape the choices we have to make. I had the choice to become a psychologist.
I am a licensed psychologist (TX38944 | APIT12721) passionate about providing individual therapy to professionals and entrepreneurs identifying as AAPI/BIPOC and/or multiethnic across the lifespan including but not limited to intersecting identity development, work-related stress, relationships, life transitions, generational trauma, anxiety, and grief/loss.
Meet Mokuai
Mokuai is an 8 lb, quirky, expressive, and willful Bichon Frise. He loves to cuddle and play tug-of-war.
If you are wondering... yes, he comes to session with me!
Fees
50 - minute Intake Appointment $250
50 - minute Therapy Appointment $200
​Sliding Scale Options Available
Insurance Options​​​​​​
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​Blue Cross Blue Shield
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Superbills, itemized receipts provided after services are paid for, which clients submit to their insurance company for out-of-network reimbursement.
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Mentaya, service that verifies out-of-network benefits and submits claims to provide reimbursement.
​​I've partnered with Mentaya, a service that streamlines getting reimbursed for your therapy sessions through out-of-network benefits.
Mentaya is perfect if you:
• Have out-of-network benefits
• Feel overwhelmed by superbills and insurance
• Have submitted superbills but failed to get any reimbursement
• Simply want to skip the hassle of paperwork!
Here's how it works:
1. Sign up for Mentaya: https://mentaya.co/inviteclient/PeEDn3910hCvmdUAwCns
2. Our practice will enter your sessions into the platform.
3. Mentaya submits the claim and handles any insurance follow-up.
4. You get reimbursed by insurance!
Mentaya charges a 5% fee per claim, which includes handling any paperwork required,
dealing with denials, and calling insurance companies.
It's risk-free: They guarantee claims are successfully submitted, or a full refund of their fees.
Good Faith Estimate Notice
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You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical and mental health care will cost.
Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services.
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You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services.
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You can ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service.
If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
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For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.