Asian American Clinical Psychologist for High-Achieving Adults
Specializing in therapy for high-performing professionals in tech, finance, law, creative fields, and leadership roles
Welcome. I’m a licensed clinical psychologist (CA and NY) specializing in helping adults who grew up with emotionally immature or unpredictable parents. Many of the individuals I work with struggle with overthinking, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, fear of failure, or people-pleasing — strategies that once helped them feel safe. My work focuses on helping you understand and adjust the psychological patterns that keep you stuck, so you can feel more at ease in how you think, relate, and make decisions.
Why you should work with me
The practice of therapy is my life calling. It has shaped who I am both personally and professionally, and I bring over a decade of clinical experience and deep personal growth to the work I do. I work with adults in high-pressure, demanding fields who want to understand how early family dynamics continue to influence their relationships, sense of self, and performance at work.
Do you find yourself constantly worrying or being indecisive? Feeling like your needs and wants are a burden onto others?
Fear of failure and perfectionism holding you back? Struggling with intergenerational conflict? Easily triggered, ruminating, 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 CA and NY.
For NYC residents wanting to work with me at Manhattan office, please visit my NYC focused practice website for more information: www.AsianAmericanTherapistNYC.com
Clinical Specialties
Affiliations
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Old attachment wounds tend to show up when something matters — dating, conflict, uncertainty, moments where you want to feel close but don’t quite know how. If you find yourself overthinking or shifting into “manage and perform” mode, we can look at where that comes from and how you want to relate differently now.
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Growing up with inconsistent, critical, or emotionally immature parents can lead to people-pleasing, guilt, emotional sensitivity, and chronic self-doubt. These patterns often persist into adulthood, especially in relationships and high-pressure environments.
I help you with understanding how these early dynamics shaped you, rebuilding self-worth, strengthening boundaries, and creating healthier ways of relating.
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Being high-achieving often means carrying pressure quietly. You can function at a high level but still deal with stress, self-doubt, or the feeling that you’re always bracing for the next thing. Therapy helps you slow down enough to understand what’s actually driving all of that, instead of just pushing through it.
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I support adults navigating ADHD or high-functioning ASD in their work, relationships, and daily routines.
For some, this means building systems around focus and organization; for others, it’s exploring how neurodivergence and family dynamics shaped their confidence, emotional patterns, or sense of self.
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.