Specific focus

I work at the intersection of complex trauma, masked neurodivergence, and career agency. The patterns that show up there are specific, and I recognize them early — so we can start with what's actually happening rather than combing your history for clues.

This means we won’t be circling indefinitely. From the first session you'll know where we are, what we're working on, and where it goes next.

It's the difference between general practice and specialty care: you see a GP for most things, and you see an ENT when it's the same ear for the fourth time.

Raised inside the frameworks

Current psychotherapy draws heavily from Eastern philosophy — mindfulness, somatic awareness, the observer self in IFS, the understanding that healing moves through mind, body, energy, and something larger than both. Most clinicians studied these frameworks. I grew up inside them.

By sixteen I had crossed the Pacific ten times. Eastern and Western ways of understanding suffering weren't philosophies I compared in graduate school — they were the two languages I learned to think in at once.

If you already sense that healing isn't purely cognitive and suffering isn't a diagnosis, this tends to feel like finally being in the right room.

Lightness is part of the work

Trauma doesn't have to be heavy to be taken seriously. Making it heavier than it already is doesn't help — clinically or humanly. There will be laughter in our sessions. Not because I'm deflecting from the hard things, but because levity is often how the hardest things finally become moveable.

It isn't a nice bonus. It's part of how this works.