Financial Psychologist & Certified Financial Therapist™
Financial psychology and consultations for professionals and families
My Mission:
Money decisions are rarely driven by logic alone. They are shaped by emotion, identity, family legacy, and the stories we carry about security, success, and self-worth.*
*Inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on judgment, bias, and decision-making.
My mission is to help people understand their relationship with wealth so they can make more intentional, values-driven choices.
Welcome.
Money and success may not feel the way we thought they would. Many of my clients are high-functioning professionals who appear “successful” on the outside but feel stuck underneath.
You may find yourself asking:
Why do I feel anxious about money even though I’m doing well?
Why does success feel heavier than I expected?
Why do I keep repeating the same money patterns, even when I know better?
Why do I feel guilty or conflicted when it comes to family and money?
How do I build a healthier relationship with money that fits who I am now?
I provide financial psychology and consultation, a private and supportive space to understand the deeper patterns shaping your relationship with money, identity, and change.
Money is one of the longest relationships we will ever have, and many of our beliefs about it begin early.
My clients often feel relieved when they realize they are not “bad” with money. More often, they have been shaped by family messages, coping patterns, and experiences that are still influencing their choices today.
How I Help:
I help clients understand the emotional, relational, and cultural patterns shaping their relationship with money, identity, and change.
My work is grounded in financial psychology and guided by approaches such as Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and other modalities that support deeper and lasting change.
Together, we look at what may be happening beneath the surface, including old patterns, family roles, cultural messages, and the parts of you that learned to equate money with safety, pressure, shame, or self-worth.
This work may include money anxiety, burnout, over-functioning, people-pleasing, guilt, avoidance, or the emotional weight of high-responsibility roles.
I offer a nonjudgmental, neurodiversity-affirming space where you do not have to perform, minimize your pain, or have it all figured out before you begin.
Why I Do This Work:
I am a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American, a first-generation college graduate, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), and someone who has lived and worked across 50+ countries.
My lived experience with cultural pressure, migration, and reinvention, from Vietnam to the U.S., and from clinical psychology to financial psychology, helps me understand the layers many of my clients are carrying.
As a bilingual (English/Spanish) psychologist with a location-independent practice, I work especially well with globally minded clients navigating identity, mobility, pressure, and change.
My role is not to tell you who to be. It is to help you unlearn old inherited “shoulds” so you can reconnect with what is true for you