Board Certified Psychologist & Certified Financial Therapist™
Therapy for thoughtful, high-achieving adults navigating anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, trauma, identity, and the pressures that can come with success.
Welcome.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, high-achieving, and highly responsible. They are often very capable at managing their lives and taking care of other people, yet underneath that competence they may feel anxious, exhausted, stuck, or unsure why success has not brought the sense of ease they expected.
You may find yourself wondering:
Why do I feel anxious even when things are objectively going well?
Why is it so difficult for me to slow down, rest, or feel like I have done enough?
Why do I understand my patterns intellectually but still keep repeating them?
Why does success sometimes feel more like pressure than freedom?
Why do I feel so responsible for other people’s needs, expectations, or emotions?
Why do work, money, achievement, or family expectations carry so much emotional weight?
I provide psychotherapy and financial psychology for adults who want to better understand the deeper patterns shaping how they relate to themselves, their relationships, work, money, and change.
Our experiences with money can be one important part of that picture. Beliefs about security, scarcity, achievement, responsibility, and what it means to have “enough” often begin early and may continue influencing us long after our circumstances have changed.
Many clients come to therapy believing they should simply be less anxious, more grateful, better at setting boundaries, or more disciplined with money. Often, the more useful question is not “What is wrong with me?” but “What shaped this pattern, and does it still serve me?”
Therapy creates space to understand those patterns with more curiosity and to develop ways of responding that better fit who you are now.
My Mission:
My mission is to help people better understand the patterns underneath how they think, feel, and make decisions so they can move through their lives with greater intention and flexibility. Sometimes those patterns show up through anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, relationships, or major life transitions. Sometimes money is part of the story, even when it is not initially what brings someone to therapy.
How I Help:
I help clients understand the emotional, relational, and cultural patterns that shape how they respond to stress, relationships, achievement, identity, money, and change.
Many of the people I work with are highly capable and accustomed to functioning well, even when they are carrying a great deal internally. We may look at patterns such as perfectionism, over-functioning, people-pleasing, chronic anxiety, burnout, difficulty resting, or feeling responsible for everyone around you.
My work is informed by approaches including Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and other trauma-informed modalities that help us understand not only what you are doing, but what may be happening underneath it. This can include earlier experiences, family roles, cultural expectations, and parts of you that learned to associate achievement, productivity, money, or taking care of others with safety, belonging, or self-worth.
Money may be part of this work when it is connected to anxiety, scarcity, guilt, family expectations, success, responsibility, or questions about what it means to have enough. It does not have to be the reason you come to therapy in order for it to be worth exploring.
I offer a nonjudgmental, neurodiversity-affirming space where you can be thoughtful and self-aware without having to perform competence, minimize what is difficult, or have everything 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 more than 50 countries. My own life has involved migration, adaptation, cultural expectations, and repeated experiences of figuring out who I am across different environments.
Those experiences shape how I understand many of the people I work with, particularly clients who are navigating multiple identities, family expectations, achievement, mobility, or the pressure to keep adapting while still trying to feel grounded in themselves. They have also influenced my evolution as a psychologist, including my growing interest in how money, culture, family history, and ideas about success can become intertwined with anxiety, self-worth, responsibility, and belonging.
As a bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking psychologist with a location-independent practice, I work especially well with globally minded and highly responsible clients whose lives may look successful from the outside while feeling more complicated internally.
My role is not to tell you who you should be or what choices you should make. It is to help you understand the inherited expectations, old coping patterns, and internalized “shoulds” that may still be shaping your life, so you can make choices that feel more aligned with who you are now.