About Me

I am a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Greater Boston area, offering individual psychotherapy to adults. Before entering full-time private practice, I spent many years as a staff psychologist at university counseling centers and mental health clinics — most recently at Harvard University Health Services, and previously at Case Western Reserve University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northwestern University (postdoctoral fellowship).

I am the Chinese translator of Irvin Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy and The Gift of Therapy, a co-author of Abnormal Psychology, a Chinese national standard textbook led by Dr. Mingyi Qian and published by Peking University Press, and a member of the Expert Committee at Jiandanxinli (简单心理), China's largest therapist platform. I have also served on the editorial board of the Asian American Journal of Psychology.

My work and continued training have given me deep experience with adults navigating relational struggles, anxiety and depression, questions of identity and culture, and the long shadow of early emotional wounds. My approach is integrative — grounded in cognitive-behavioral, attachment-based, psychodynamic, and existential traditions — and tailored to the person in front of me rather than to a protocol.

As an immigrant myself, I know something of what it means to adapt to a new culture and to live between two worlds. That experience shapes how I listen, and allows me to hold the cultural and personal threads of a life together rather than apart.

Outside the consulting room, I'm a soccer mom, the keeper of a garden I'm determined to keep alive, and a slow reader making my way through a stack of books that never seems to shrink.