About Me

Let's Get Oriented Together

Therapy is profoundly personal, where we may experience firsts and moments where we are our most vulnerable selves. It makes so much sense to want to know more about who you are engaging with in this deep, healing work. As someone who has also been on the other end, knowing more about my therapist allowed me to feel more seen, heard, and safe.

As a Native New Yorker, I attended public schools in the city and had the privilege of receiving admission to a specialized high school. In high school, while I was immensely grateful and still am to this day for its rigorous STEM courses, I gravitated towards the arts and theatre, as it provided a space of solace and expression for me after experiencing grief and loss before my second year. A creative expression of mine that I have honed over the years and cherish closely to this day is singing.

At Boston College, I studied Communication and Film Studies and began to cultivate my activism and social justice values through a service learning program, where I worked at a grassroots suicide crisis hotline since my first year. In my senior thesis, I explored the intersections of Asian Americans, grief, and terminal illness, and worked closely with Indigenous Hawai'ians in producing a documentary on the Protect Mauna Kea movement.

After college, I lived and worked on Dena'ina lands (colonially known as Anchorage) at an HIV/AIDS harm reduction organization, supporting Indigenous, QTBIPOC, low-income, houseless communities. I continued to dive into the Land Back Movement and works of Angela Davis, Miriame Kaba, Patrisse Cullors, to name a few, and felt inspired by my experience there to tend to my relationship to my lineages, roots, and ancestors, propelling me to return to New York to pursue my Master's in Social Work at Columbia. During grad school, I supported a peer-to-peer mentorship, Asian, Pacific-Islander-centered program, facilitated a QTBIPOC youth space at Apex for Youth, and collaborated on programming and fundraising efforts at the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a transformative mental health training institute. 

As a community builder, and recognizing that a calling of mine is in healing relationships, I became a therapist in private practice to continue fostering these close relationships with these communities and movement-building work. In essence, I have found my role as a therapist to be reinvigorating, energizing, and aligning with the values of my liberated heart and soul.