Therapy and groups for women and teens moving through fertility, motherhood, and the changes that reshape a life. Virtual and in person in Singapore, California, New York, and Hawaii — in English and Mandarin.
Three decades of work across hospitals, community clinics, courtrooms, and consulting rooms — woven into a single, deliberate practice.
I believe psychological well-being is shaped not only by personal experience, but also by family systems, culture, and the broader world we live inside of.
I am a clinical psychologist providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care for individuals navigating identity, migration, and major life transitions. Born in Taiwan and raised in the United States after immigrating in 1994, my cross-cultural background deeply informs my understanding of belonging, resilience, and intergenerational experience.
Before becoming a psychologist, I practiced law as an attorney licensed in New York and California, working closely with immigrant communities. Through that work, I witnessed the profound psychological impact of trauma, displacement, and systemic barriers, which led me to transition into psychology. That legal training still shapes how I think in session: I listen for the structure of a problem, and I am comfortable working out, with you, what can actually be changed.
Following my own fertility journey and transition into motherhood, my work expanded to include a deeper focus on women's mental health across every life stage.
From individual psychotherapy to facilitated groups, every engagement is designed around your particular story, culture, and goals.
Ongoing individual work, primarily with women and adolescent girls, with a particular focus on perinatal and postpartum mental health (training through Postpartum Support International) and fertility and infertility support (ASRM member with specialized training). Sessions in English and Mandarin.
I also work with men — those examining the expectations they were raised inside, and those supporting a partner or daughter through a difficult season.
A ten-week DBT-informed skills group for women, run in small virtual cohorts.
EnquirePsychodiagnostic testing and assessment, and third-party reproduction evaluations — donor and gestational carrier assessments conducted to ASRM guidelines.
Extreme hardship, asylum, VAWA, and U/T visa evaluations for attorneys and their clients.
Much of what brings women to therapy — the exhaustion, the guilt, the feeling of never being enough — is not a flaw in you. It is what happens when you absorb expectations shaped by gender, culture, family, and migration, and are asked to carry them quietly. Some can be refused. Others have to be carried. The work is learning which is which, and finding that some of the pain came from the argument with it.
My work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP), and mindfulness-based interventions — often an integration tailored to your specific concerns and goals.
Trained in EMDR, cognitive processing therapy (CPT), and prolonged exposure (PE) — the treatments with the strongest evidence for trauma. Which one fits depends on you, and none of them start before you are ready.
A therapeutic space where you develop insight, practical tools, and the confidence to trust your own judgment — where your language, your family's expectations, and what you were raised to believe are part of the conversation, not obstacles to it.
Part of the work is finding your voice — learning to name what you need, set limits that hold, and speak with the confidence that what you are asking for is reasonable. Where it helps, I bring my legal training to that work: I know how systems respond, and what it takes to be heard by them.
The seasons of a woman's life are not single — they overlap, return, deepen. The work meets each one.
The transitions that reshape a life: pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum year; fertility treatment, and the grief when it doesn't end the way you hoped; choosing not to have children, and holding that choice among people who keep asking; perimenopause and menopause; caring for aging parents; living with a body that has changed.
The years of working out who you are while everyone has a view on it: finding where you belong, and among whom; academic pressure, and family expectations that may not match your own; questions about gender and identity; living in a body that is changing faster than your sense of it.
The particular weight of living between languages, cultures, and generations: homesickness that doesn't resolve on a schedule; the distance between you and the family you left, and the one you're raising here; parenting in a culture you weren't parented in; friendship built from nothing, at an age when it should already be there; the question of who you are once the place that defined you is behind you.
Care offered in person and through secure telehealth, across the practice's licensed jurisdictions.
In person and virtual through Atlas Therapy & Coaching. Monday–Friday, 10:00am–5:00pm · Saturday, 9:00am–12:00pm SGT
Virtual sessions for clients located in New York, California, and Hawaii. Sunday–Thursday: New York 8:00pm–12:00am ET · California 5:00–9:00pm PT · Hawaii 2:00–6:00pm HST
A first consultation is a conversation — about what you are carrying, what you are hoping for, and whether we are a fit.
This form is not monitored for emergencies. If you need immediate support, please contact the Samaritans of Singapore at 1767 or text 9151 1767, or call or text 988 in the United States. If you are in immediate danger, call 995 in Singapore or 911 in the United States. SOS also runs a 24-hour CareText service on WhatsApp.
Whether you're seeking individual therapy, interested in a workshop, or have questions about services, I'd love to hear from you.