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Somatic practice and psychotherapy for trauma, chronic stress, and persistent symptoms
I offer somatic psychotherapy in Walnut Creek and online throughout California. I work with developmental and relational trauma, chronic stress, chronic pain, persistent physical symptoms, and functional neurological symptoms. I integrate somatic practice and psychotherapy, with attention to both emotional and physical experience.
Who I Work With
You may be navigating:
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Chronic anxiety or emotional overwhelm
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Disconnection from your body or sense of self
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Patterns in relationships that feel hard to change
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A sense of being “too much” or “not enough”
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Lingering effects of early trauma or neglect
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Chronic pain, chronic illness, functional neurological symptoms, or other persistent physical symptoms
You may not always have words for what you’re experiencing. Sometimes stress, trauma, health conditions, and physical symptoms can all affect how the body responds.
About My Approach
Healing doesn’t happen through insight alone. It also happens through the body — through felt experience, safety in relationship, and learning how to be with ourselves differently.
My work integrates:
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Somatic Experiencing® (SE): Supporting your nervous system in completing or settling survival responses
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Advanced somatic trauma training with Kathy Kain: Including Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists and Coupling Dynamics, with a focus on working directly with physiology and body-based patterns of trauma
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Somatic Resilience & Regulation (SRR): Building your capacity to stay present, connected, and steady in the face of stress
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Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning (DARe): Exploring how early relationships shape us — and how new patterns can emerge
I also use this approach with people living with chronic pain, chronic illness, functional neurological symptoms, and other persistent physical symptoms.
About Me
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in mental health care in Hong Kong and the United States. I offer online somatic trauma therapy to adults throughout California.
My background includes work in inpatient psychiatric settings, outpatient clinics, and community mental health. I integrate somatic practice and psychotherapy to work with trauma, chronic stress, relational patterns, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptoms.
Fluent in English and Cantonese, I bring cultural awareness, extensive clinical experience, and a steady presence to the therapeutic relationship.
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