Conscious & Healing

A safe space for all of you to be seen, held and nurtured. Collaborative therapy advocating for individual and collective liberation for us all.

An important note.

It is okay to ask where your potential therapist politically stands. Politics ripple down and our position holds power, impacting the therapeutic relationship and process.

I stand in solidarity with Palestinians and all global communities that are amid genocide and heavily oppressed. The United States continues to cause and perpetuate local and global harm.

About & Approach

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I am a queer, neurodivergent, ex-evangelical, able-bodied, cis, 4th generation Japanese American.

I believe healing comes slowly and intentionally, quickening as we carve spaces of vulnerability and connection with ourselves and others, while finding ways to regulate our nervous system, allowing our body to experience safety and trust again.

I work collaboratively and hold a relational-cultural theoretical lens, echoing that the harm from systemic oppression disconnects us from all parts of ourselves and authentic connection brings us back. I am passionate about advocacy work, especially with people impacted by the prison and criminal legal system, largely because my family was unjustly incarcerated for being Japanese during World War II.

In the everyday, you can find me trying to balance solitude and connection, intuition and presence, and slowing down with intentional movement with my pup, Mochi.

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Professional Counselor Associate, R7874
with training in Marriage and Family Therapy
Supervised by Tony Lai, LPC, RPT-S

The Process

1

20-Min Free Consult

A brief space for sharing the reasons for
seeking out therapy at this time, as well as figuring out if we’ll be a good fit together.

2

Initial Assessment

An initial session for gathering background and history, providing more context to inform treatment goals.

3

Individual Sessions

Currently, sessions are offered every other week, unless a crisis arises. Sessions are client-centered and collaborative, meaning you are the expert of your story, and we work together to find your path toward healing.

Identity & Integration

  • One of the most terrifying & isolating aspects of feeling like you don't belong is the ineffableness. Asian Americans, even in all our diversity, often lack the words to describe how it hurts, why we feel this way, the ways our loneliness manifests, and — most importantly — how we can change things.

    — Soo Jin Lee & Linda Yoon, Where I Belong

  • Trauma is a wordless story our body tells itself about what is safe and what is a threat.

    — Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

  • Because this work of inner healing, relational reconciliation, and identity integration has the power to transform generations after us, I cannot even begin to imagine what is possible if we all committed to healing and prioritizing our mental health as a community.

    — Jenny Wang, Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

  • We tend to think of healing as something binary—either we're broken or we're healed. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.

    — Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands