Somatic Psychotherapy
In the face of societal pressures and existential stress, it’s easy to lose a sense of who we are and what truly matters to us. I hold therapy as a space to slow down, re-member, and honor the call towards greater alignment, thus unfurling a more meaningful and liberatory existence. Together we’ll get to know the parts of you that are wanting to be understood and integrated back into the dynamic wholeness of you.
My style is down-to-earth, collaborative, and direct. I see you as the expert of your experience, and myself as an attuned, curious ally in your study of how your psyche/soma organize and respond to life. I’ll help guide awareness into present-moment bodily experience to build connection to the deeper wisdom within, and to support a processing of backlogged trauma held within the mind-body continuum.
Learning to be present in our bodies is a key pathway to being present for our lives. This certainly comes with challenges: discomfort, pain, unprocessed grief, and/or fear may arise. And yet—at a pace that suits you—the way out can be through, and I hold a trauma-responsive container in which to honor the sacredness of this psycho-emotional and spiritual alchemy.
Adult individuals, relationship dyads, and family/group constellations.
I work especially well with diasporic identities, LGBTQIA+ folks, immigrants, artists and creatives, healers and activists, high achievers looking to heal from burnout and perfectionism, folks with a spiritual bent, and anyone experiencing big life transitions.
I am currently only accepting virtual clients.
Identifying your longings and what you most care about, and centering these values as a north star in your life
Recognizing the root causes of your suffering and shame, and processing this material with a spirit of curiosity and self-compassion
Bringing light to—and learning to tolerate—subtler aspects of your experience (emotions, sensations, thoughts, memories, imagery, dreams) that are ready to be met and healed
Growing emotional literacy and competency in clear communication, thereby fostering authenticity and intimacy within yourself and in your relationships
Unpacking the holism of how life experiences and social context — familial, intergenerational, sociopolitical, institutional, historical, etc. — have shaped you, your perception, and your reactions
Expanding your options for how you respond to life’s pressures beyond your conditioned beliefs and default tendencies, and practicing new actions
I draw from a palette of modalities and orientations that support transformation. Together we’ll get to know what best supports you:
SOMATICS
ATTACHMENT THEORY
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
PSYCHODYNAMICS
Neurodiversity affirming
ANTI-OPPRESSION
LIBERATION PSYCHOLOGY
ECOPSYCHOLOGY
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
POLYVAGAL THEORY
YIN-YANG PHILOSOPHY
DREAMWORK
ANCESTRAL WORK
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
About infinity
I’m a somatic psychotherapist (they/them) of Chinese Hakka ancestry. I support clients in gently identifying and unlearning stuck unconscious patterns, while reconnecting with embodied ways of being that have long been marginalized or disrupted.
My practice is shaped by my own ongoing healing journey and over a decade of study at the intersection of trauma healing, expanded states of consciousness, the collective psyche, and the body. I’m especially interested in how personal, cultural, and historical conditioning lives in our nervous systems, and how meeting these patterns with compassion can restore a greater sense of choice, dignity, and belonging—within ourselves and the wider web of life.
I bring love, curiosity, rigor, and humor to my work with clients as I walk alongside their unique journeys of exploring how to live well, love well, and die well.
I received a Master of Arts degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), additional training at Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center and Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, and am comprehensively trained in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. I have studied somatic bodywork with teachers of the generative somatics (gs) and Strozzi Institute lineages.
My current ongoing studies involve a deepening into ancestral medicine and include Chinese medicine psychiatry and Daoist martial + healing arts.
I find joy in attuning to the seasons (inner and outer); practicing martial arts and archery; making things (such as food, medicine, carved Chinese seals, pottery, pigments); connecting and scheming with community; cultivating interspecies friendships; reveling in the interplay between macrocosm and microcosm; and always learning.
Contact
If you sense we might be a good fit for working together, please reach out to schedule a free 20-minute Zoom consultation.
