Let's start with a truth
I build my practice around:
you are not broken, and you are not failing.
The lens I bring to this work is integrative and holistic— mind and body as bidirectional rather than siloed systems. I come to this work shaped by both Eastern and Western ways of understanding what it means to heal—contemporary psychology alongside Chinese traditions centered on balance, nourishment, and the whole person. My work is also political, in the sense that I take feminism and decolonization seriously as frameworks.
In practice, that means drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic work, narrative therapy, and mindfulness, along with psychological theory and Chinese healing traditions, including food therapy and herbalism to build your capacity for self-compassion, a wider emotional range, and a more trusting relationship with your body and inner world.
I believe healing is to be brought back into balance
and alignment, not something to be fixed.
When I’m not in the therapy room
San Francisco is home. The city was where I was born and raised, though much of my adult life unfolded elsewhere—university in Vancouver, graduate school in London and New York, and formative years living in Shanghai. Moving between cities and cultures shaped how I think about identity, belonging, and the different ways we make sense of ourselves.
My path into motherhood was similarly meandering. Infertility and fertility treatment brought me into intimate contact with uncertainty, hope, disappointment, and the strange experience of having something so deeply personal become medicalized. Motherhood itself has continued to reshape me in ways I’m still discovering.
Along the way, I became increasingly interested in traditional Chinese approaches to health and healing, particularly herbalism and food therapy. I’m drawn to traditions that understand our bodies and emotional lives as interconnected, and health as something shaped by nourishment, environment, relationship, and change.
These days, you'll likely find me swimming in any and every body of water, taking photographs, reading, and raising the luminous and ferocious force of stardust that is my daughter.
Education + Training
Education
Complementary Trainings & Experience
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
CA Board of Psychology
PhD, School Psychology
Fordham University
MS, School Psychology
Fordham University
MS, Mental Health Studies · Honors
King’s College London
BA, Sociology
University of British Columbia
Clinical Supervision
Clinical Supervisor, Private Practice
Kwan Psychology, San Francisco
Clinical Supervisor, Community
Community Youth Center of San Francisco
Clinical Supervisor, SF Track & Wellness Centers Programs
RAMS Richmond Area Multi-Services, San Francisco
Founder & Clinical Psychologist
Kwan Psychology, San Francisco
HRV Biofeedback & Resonance Frequency Training
Richard Gevirtz, PhD · Mind Media Academy
Sex Therapy Certificate · 90 hours
California Institute of Integral Studies
EMDR Parts I & II · 40 hours
Parnell Institute
CBT for Anxiety
Beck Institute
Internal Family Systems · 24 hours
Continuing Education
Perinatal Mental Health & Reproductive Trauma
Continuing Education
The Tao of Food: Food Dynamics
TCM Academy