dreaming of & towards liberated care

As a queer, disabled, and racialized therapist, my care work is deeply informed by my lived experiences, social location, and vision for collective liberation. I’m especially passionate about practices of capacity building, generative discomfort, and living questions that create space for new possibilities. I invite us to engage with healing as a living process, and the possibility then of living as a healing process.

I move in solidarity rather than from saviorhood. I’m committed to the lifelong work of unlearning and resisting oppressive biases, and I reject the inherent power-over dynamic that comes with being positioned as so-called expert with a treatment manual. Instead, we’ll co-create boundaries and expectations that would best support your full humanity and ground our work in self-determination, sustainability, transparency, interdependence, and accessibility. The support I offer weaves together personal experience and relationships, ancestral and intergenerational wisdom, written and oral stories, Western education, supervised training, and community care work.

I believe that I still have as much to learn from you as you might be hoping to learn from me, and that together it becomes more possible to encounter new places of healing and possibility that neither of us are able to reach alone.

  • Western psychotherapeutic lineages: attachment theory, humanistic therapy, play & expressive arts, strengths-based, trauma-informed

    Cultural and spiritual lineages: Engaged Buddhism, storytelling and oral tradition

    Justice lineages: Disability Justice, Healing Justice, Mad liberation, anti-imperialism and Indigenous sovereignty, harm reduction, abolition of all carceral systems, Black feminism

  • Asian American mental health, neurodivergence, intergenerational healing & family of origin work, therapists and care workers, anxiety, stress, burnout, complex trauma, identity exploration, life transitions, personal growth

I bring an intersectional and justice-informed lens to contextualize personal experiences within larger systems and histories.

Beyond merely tending to symptom relief, we begin to understand symptoms across mind, body, and spirit as protectors of your vulnerability, expressions of unmet needs, and the products of systemic and intergenerational dis-ease. We can also reclaim and co-imagine stories and legacies of joy, strength, meaning, and love.

we’ll face the tense realities of the world we live in while creating space for new possibilities.

The conditions of our world are traumatizing and disabling. Unacknowledged and unprocessed hurt, grief, and loss will inevitably reveal themselves in this work. We will learn to listen, to hold, to release, and to transform.

In small, sustainable ways we’ll practice stretching our capacity for complexity, curiosity, and compassion, revitalizing our connections to sensation and imagination.

you’re not alone. our struggles and our joys are connected.

You’ll be encouraged and supported to lean into collective care and interdependence, where you can challenge limiting beliefs around worthiness and enoughness.

By curiously examining the unfolding of our own relationship, we gain insight into our relational patterns and can explore ways of relating that feel more aligned with our values and dreams.

Safe connection is a core human need, whether with animal companions, plants, places, or people. Loneliness and isolation bring mental, emotional, and physical stress and dis-ease, while secure and nurturing relationships have always been pillars of resilience and growth.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.

Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth… Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be… it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker

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