Trauma doesn’t always arrive as a single, catastrophic moment. As a somatic experiencing trauma therapist, I find that the traumas I work with clients are more subtle, sometimes it comes quietly—over years. In childhood. In relationships you couldn’t leave. In environments where survival required adaptation, silence, or becoming someone else.

Talk therapy isn’t useless for trauma, but it often isn’t enough on its own because trauma doesn’t live primarily in the thinking brain—it lives in the body and nervous system.

Existential anxiety is a deep, often unsettling feeling that arises when you confront big questions about life, death, purpose, freedom, and meaning…

Anger is healthy, especially when it's coupled with trauma because rage is mobilizing energy that wants to move out and free up space for the body to be more flexible, adaptive, and free of pain.

Do you ever wonder “what does my therapist think of me?” I’ll share my experiences as a trauma-informed, queer Asian American therapist in New York City.

What happens when avoidance becomes a habit that impacts work or relationships negatively?