I write and speak Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), and have learned to traverse different cultural, linguistic landscapes since a young age. Works of literature, art and feminist philosophy have over the years threaded my thinking together; which now informs my work, and the way you’ll be listened to.

There is a lot of power in speech, and how language is used. There is also a lot of power built into a therapeutic dyad when it is formed. I tread carefully with your words, the desires embedded within and outside of it, that’s been stifled or lost unbeknownst to you. I take immense care in the way I speak and not speak when I am in the room with you, when it is and is not useful to you, what is and is not safe.

 
“We are wedded in language, have our being in words. Language is also a place of struggle.”
— bell hooks

Background & Affiliations

  • California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

  • Member of the Education Commitee at NCSPP (Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology)

Presented at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, as part of their Child Colloquium Series: “The Loss of a Mother Tongue and its Revival in the Transference”.

Discussant at the Child Colloquium, SFCP: “We are three islands living under the same roof:
Exploring how self-injury, restricting, and bingeing helped a Chinese-American adolescent in developing her own mind” by Yen Quoc.

My clinical experience have been in hospital and hospice settings that surround anticipated grief and bereavement; community mental health outpatient settings and research institutes.

Specifically:

  • RAMS Inc. (Child, Youth and Family)

  • Hospice By the Bay (Bereavement Department - Adults, Children and Family)

  • Didi Hirsch (Adult)

  • Didi Hirsch (Group facilitation on Parkinson’s Disease)

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Rehabilitation Centre)

  • Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern hospital (Oncology Department)

  • Down Syndrome Association

  • Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (focus on sex and gender, self harm and suicide)

Trainings

  • Yearlong Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Theory and Applications

  • San Francisco Yearlong Psychoanalytic Intensive Study Group. Rupture: Pain and Possibility

  • 2 Yearlong Early Case Conference with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

  • Yearlong Psychodynamic Clinical Work in Community Mental Health

  • Existential-Phenomenological Therapy Training

  • Buddhism and Psychology Integration International Training at the Institut Vajra Yogini, France

  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training