about me.
Hi, I’m Hannah (she/they). I am mixed race Chinese & white, queer, deeply relational, & highly sensitive. I love outdoor adventures, copious amounts of bread & cheese, and quality time with my loved ones. I am a licensed clinical social worker and Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained therapist and approach therapy from a place of deep care and compassion, rooted in social justice and collective liberation.
I believe in the healing power of relationships where we feel truly seen.
Growing up, I was painfully shy, and learned to hide behind perfectionism, people pleasing, and caregiving for others in order to cope with really big feelings that I didn’t know what to do with. I struggled with being queer & multiracial and never felt like I fit in. I was constantly at war with myself over how I ‘should’ act, which kept me from knowing my authentic wants and needs, and ultimately from finding deep relationships I craved.
My journey was (and is) messy, emotional, and at times filled with pain & rawness & vulnerability. Therapy has changed my life, radically shifting how I relate to myself and opening up how I connect with others.
My goal is to help you do the same: transform your life through transforming your relationship with yourself.
What emotions, memories, thoughts do you push down or shy away from? What inside of you needs some space for expression, witnessing, healing? Therapy is a space for you, for all parts of you, to show up exactly as you are – raw, skeptical, anxious, messy, conflicted, destructive, tender. Let’s heal all the way down to the roots.
I am honored to be here with you.
my values.
My practice is anti-oppressive, non-pathologizing, LGBTQIA+-celebratory, non-monogamy affirming, and sex & kink positive. I have my own intersecting lived experiences of both privilege and oppression, and I am committed to creating a space where folks can feel safe in bringing their unique identities.
your inner wisdom.
My therapeutic training and practices center around supporting you in reconnecting with yourself and moving into your authenticity. I believe that each person holds all the wisdom and spaciousness needed for healing. Therapy can be a way of returning home to ourselves.
cultivating relationship.
I believe in the radical power of deep listening and compassionate presence. That is what you can expect of me - to give my full, compassionate attention to every part of you. Not just to the parts of you that are easy, or charming, or “good.” All parts of you are welcome here. Every part of us, regardless of how uncomfortable or destructive it may appear to be, is doing what it thinks is best (even if it isn’t working). Together, we can begin to understand and meet underlying needs, bringing more internal awareness, integration, and harmony overall.
collective liberation.
While therapy is an invitation to turn inward, therapy with me integrates healing from impacts of systems of oppression alongside your personal healing and growth. Grounding our internal experiences in the external world can help us to recognize, name, and intentionally navigate systems that often make us feel like we have no choice. Therapy with me can be a space to unpack how we have internalized–and maybe even recreated–these systems of oppression inside ourselves and our relationships. We must do the work of liberation both internally and externally.