What is a fun fact about myself?
I am a first-generation immigrant from Vietnam and consider myself bi-cultural.
What can you expect as my client?
As someone who is neurodivergent, genderqueer/non-binary, and Asian-American, I can relate to the experience of falling through the cracks, your struggles not being understood or feeling confused about navigating the world with complex and intersecting challenges. My goal is to create a space of compassion through establishing trust, connection, and validation.
I believe that change and recovery can happen when we see our challenges as approaches that may have helped us to adapt to the world, and we can glean strength and resource from that compassionate understanding. In applying equity to treatment, I emphasize collaboration to create goals and strategies that meet your needs, your abilities, and where you are. I also practice from within a LGBTQIA+, poly, and kink-affirming, sex-positive, and body-positive framework.
Who am I outside of therapy?
Outside of therapeutic training, I like exploring new activities and restaurants in the city, consuming Asian media like K-pop and manhwas/manhuas, and writing fiction novellas.
How did I become a therapist?
I had wanted to become a therapist since I was young and found that the therapists I encountered did not look like me or couldn’t quite connect to my struggles, such as being queer or BIPOC. I was motivated to enter the mental health profession to bridge some of those gaps and follow examples of positive experiences I’ve had with therapists, regardless of whether they matched my own identities. Those key qualities of compassion, curiosity and cultural humility are ones that I strive to give to all my clients.
I am currently working on my master’s degree in Professional Mental Health Counseling at Lewis and Clark College. I will be graduating summer 2025.
I also hold a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Portland State University.
I have spent several years working in community behavioral health as a mental health aid at a residential care facility, and a care coordinator, connecting mental health clients to medical care. My core interests relate to some of my own identities: Working with folks of diverse backgrounds such as the queer and BIPOC communities, trauma, leaving religion, neurodivergence, OCD, anxiety, and depression.
My ideal clients are individuals and couples that would like a collaborative approach and having a voice in the direction of their treatment, appreciate validation and acceptance being modeled for them and want to foster their own self-compassion while moving towards growth.
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1730 SW Skyline Blvd #109
Portland OR, 97221
541 Willamette St Suite 218
Eugene OR, 97401
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