Dr. Danny Liu
Welcome. I am a licensed clinical psychologist (CA and NY) specializing in cultural, relationship, and mental health support.
For NYC residents wanting to work with me at NYC Manhattan office, please visit my NYC focused practice website for more information: www.AsianAmericanTherapistNYC.com
Why you should work with me
The practice of therapy is my life calling. Therapy has been transformative to who I am today, and I will bring over a decade of my clinical and growth experiences to support you in your healing journey. Many of my clients work high hour, high stress jobs, who need attentive emotional support while gaining deep insight into their emotions and behaviors.
Do you find yourself constantly worrying or being indecisive? Does dating, relationships, or family stress you out? Feeling behind in life?
Fears and limiting beliefs holding you back? Struggling with intergenerational conflict? Easily triggered and having a hard time calming down?
Remote Therapy in California and New York
Many of my clients are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Los Angeles, and New York City. I am able to provide teletherapy throughout and California or New York.
Clinical Specialties
Affiliations
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Having worked with founders, executives, and entrepreneurs, a pattern that I often notice is that the nature of their work pushes them to their mental and emotional limits. Compounding intense responsibilities at work, balancing work relationships, personal relationships, and attending to your own self care, it is easy to see why founders and executives often feel overwhelmed and burned out.
In many instances, the most difficult part of being a founder or executive is managing your own psychology.
When we are mentally taxed to our limits, our insecurities (e.g., internalized limiting beliefs, fear of failure) are often easily triggered and unearthed.
Unlike executive coaches, I can provide support at a deeper level of targeting your core beliefs, thought patterns, belief systems that influence how you process and make decisions both professionally and interpersonally.
Areas where I specialize in:
Identifying limiting core beliefs that shape decision making and thought processes
Managing work stress that inhibit you from being emotionally “present” at home/outside of work
Increasing mental and emotional resilience working through professional setbacks
Managing burnout, motivation level, uncertainty, and procrastination
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Areas where I specialize in:
Navigating the push and pull of what society, culture, and others tell us/expect us to be doing, versus pursuing what you find meaningful and fulfilling.
Children of emotionally unavailable parents/narcissistic parents
Working through Filial Guilt
Managing cultural and intergenerational conflicts with parents
Intergenerational Trauma
Press
Corresponding to the Monterey Park Tragedy, I am grateful to ABC News Sacramento to be interviewed in their segment on raising awareness of the barriers for those in the AAPI community seeking mental health support, & to provide resources so that people can begin to heal.
Click on the image for the link to the article.
FAQ
How long does therapy take?
Often our deepest insecurities, fears, and core beliefs were derived from the first 18 years of our lives.
Think: 365 days x 18 years of relational attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that were modeled to us by our caretakers and other experiences in our upbringing environment.
If you were raised in a household where your emotional needs were often met with disappointment, overtime you will likely develop a generalized expectation (core belief) that “ others cannot meet my emotional needs, so what is the point of help seeking, talking about it, or working through issues with someone? ”
In therapy, I utilize the therapy relationship to reshape these deeply ingrained relational attitudes. 12 months of treatment would be considered short-term. Many of my clients work with me for multiple years. It is through the aggregate process of therapy contact that enduring change occurs.
As I am making a commitment to you in your healing journey, 1x a week therapy cadence (excluding holidays and in advance notified time off) is the expectation given my therapy orientation. This frequency is necessary in order to reconstruct old relational attitudes stuck in the past, and to promote healthier ways of relating to oneself and others (attachment) and down to the neurological pathway level.
References
Relapse after cognitive behavior therapy of depression: potential implications for longer courses of treatment. (1992). American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(8), 1046–1052. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.8.1046
Ali, S., Rhodes, L., Moreea, O., McMillan, D., Gilbody, S., Leach, C., Lucock, M., Lutz, W., & Delgadillo, J. (2017). How durable is the effect of low intensity CBT for depression and anxiety? Remission and relapse in a longitudinal cohort study. Behaviour research and therapy, 94, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.04.006
Leichsenring, F., & Rabung, S. (2008). Effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: A meta-analysis. JAMA, 300(13), 1551–1565. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.300.13.1551. This meta-analysis examined 23 studies involving over 1,000 patients and found that long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (lasting at least one year or 50 sessions) was significantly more effective than shorter-term therapies in treating complex mental disorders, including personality disorders and chronic conditions.