Board Certified Psychologist & Certified Financial Therapist™
Therapy for thoughtful, high-achieving adults navigating anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, trauma, identity, and the pressures that can come with success.
Welcome.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, high-achieving, and highly responsible. They are often very capable at managing their lives and taking care of others, yet underneath that competence they may feel anxious, exhausted, stuck, or unsure why success has not brought the sense of ease they expected.
You may find yourself wondering:
Why do I feel anxious even when things are objectively going well?
Why is it so difficult to slow down, rest, or feel like I have done enough?
Why do I understand my patterns intellectually but still keep repeating them?
Why do work, money, achievement, or family expectations carry so much emotional weight?
I provide psychotherapy and financial psychology for adults who want to better understand the deeper patterns shaping how they relate to themselves, their relationships, work, money, and change.
Sometimes those patterns involve anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, or feeling responsible for everyone around you. Sometimes money is part of the story through concerns about security, scarcity, achievement, guilt, family expectations, or what it means to have “enough.”
Rather than asking only “What is wrong with me?”, therapy can help us ask “What shaped this pattern, and does it still serve me?”
How I Help:
My work focuses on the emotional, relational, and cultural patterns underneath how you respond to stress, relationships, achievement, identity, money, and change.
I draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and other trauma-informed approaches to understand not only what you are doing, but what may be happening underneath it. This can include earlier experiences, family roles, cultural expectations, and parts of you that learned to associate achievement, productivity, money, or caring for others with safety, belonging, or self-worth.
I offer a nonjudgmental, neurodiversity-affirming space where you can be thoughtful and self-aware without having to perform competence, minimize what is difficult, or have everything figured out before you begin.
A little about me…
I am a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American, first-generation college graduate, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking psychologist. My own experiences with migration, cultural expectations, international living, and adaptation shape the cross-cultural lens I bring to this work.