Board Certified Psychologist & Certified Financial Therapist™
Financial therapy and consultations for professionals navigating identity, life transitions, and their relationship with money.
My Mission:
Money decisions are rarely driven by logic alone. They are shaped by emotion, identity, family legacy, and the stories we carry about security, success, and self-worth.*
*Inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on judgment, bias, and decision-making.
My mission is to help people understand their relationship with money so they can make more intentional, values-driven choices instead of staying stuck in old fears and inherited patterns.
Welcome. Let’s look beneath the surface.
Money and success do not always feel the way we thought they would. Many of my clients are thoughtful, high-functioning professionals who seem successful on the outside but feel burdened, stuck, or unsettled underneath.
You may find yourself asking:
Why do I feel anxious about money even though I’m doing well?
Why does success feel heavier than I expected?
Why do I keep repeating the same money patterns, even when I know better?
Why do I feel guilty or conflicted when it comes to family and money?
Why doesn’t making more money make me feel more secure?
How do I build a healthier relationship with money that fits who I am now?
Can therapy help me understand my money habits, stress, and shame?
I provide financial therapy and consultation, a private and supportive space to understand the deeper patterns shaping your relationship with money, identity, and change.
Money is one of the longest relationships we will ever have, and many of our beliefs about it begin early. My clients often feel relieved when they realize they are not “bad” with money. More often, they have been shaped by old family messages, coping patterns, and experiences that are still influencing their choices today.
Those patterns are not fixed. With awareness and support, they can begin to shift.
How I Help:
I help clients better understand the emotional, relational, and cultural patterns shaping their relationship with money, identity, and change.
My work is grounded in financial therapy and guided by trauma-informed approaches such as Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and other modalities that support deeper and lasting change.
Together, we look at what may be happening beneath the surface, including old survival patterns, family roles, cultural messages, and the parts of you that learned to equate money with safety, pressure, shame, or self-worth.
This work may include money anxiety, burnout, over-functioning, people-pleasing, guilt, avoidance, or the emotional weight of high-responsibility roles. It can also mean building a steadier relationship with yourself so your choices feel more intentional, sustainable, and aligned with who you are now.
I offer a nonjudgmental, neurodiversity-affirming space where you do not have to perform, minimize your pain, or have it all figured out before you begin.
Why I Do This Work:
I am a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American, a first-generation college graduate, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), and someone who has lived and worked across 50+ countries.
My lived experience with cultural pressure, migration, and reinvention, from Vietnam to the U.S., and from clinical psychology to financial therapy, helps me understand the layers many of my clients are carrying.
As a bilingual (English/Spanish) psychologist with a location-independent practice, I work especially well with globally minded clients navigating identity, mobility, pressure, and change.
My role is not to tell you who to be. It is to help you unlearn old inherited “shoulds” so you can reconnect with what is true for you