Clinicians who offer sliding scale payment structures may offer lower or reduced fees based on an individual's ability to pay. Please contact this clinician for more details regarding their fees or sliding scale policy.What's My Approach to Therapy?
No one can be everything to everyone. Similarly, no therapist can be everything to every client. It is therefore vital for us, clients, and therapists to find our “fit” among what seem to be endless, yet confusing, options.
I come originally from China, and I trained with some of the most renowned multicultural and multilingual psychologists during my PhD career at Columbia University. Since then, I interned and worked as a bilingual therapist at Mt. Sinai-Roosevelt Hospital in NYC, Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC, Amherst College Counseling Center in Amherst, MA, and the Community Health Center of Franklin County, MA. My own cross-cultural and cross-lingual experiences continue to shape the way I think and work.
My “ideal patient” often shares these essential characteristics with me: bilingualism, biculturalism, deep-seated values for family, language, and culture, experiences of migration and adversity, an appreciation for authenticity and openness, and an unyielding curiosity about the inner workings of their own minds and those of others.
In a world that is obsessed with quick fixes, formulas, and automation, I understand human dilemmas as multifaceted, complex, and often enduring. While I utilize behaviorally based interventions with ease, I am fundamentally an insight-oriented and relationally based therapist. I believe sustainable, long-lasting changes happen when one becomes fully and nonjudgmentally aware of oneself within a strong therapeutic bond.