Hello!

I arrive here as a therapist with the honest, humble offerings of someone who has also braved the dark, lonely, and often terrifying journey of healing. I’m not welcoming your grief, shame, or fear without first having been willing to feel the burden of my own. I’m not inviting you into the courageous task of intimacy with your partner without also chasing it down in my own marriage and relationships.

First and foremost, I am a human – fully with you in the messy process of figuring out what the hell that even means. And despite the fact that I won’t be sharing much about my life with you in the therapy room, I hope and believe that my clients feel this humanity in my presence as a therapist.

Second, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate – and that means I’m confident that I’ve got effective tools to partner with you in your journey of healing and growing. I utilize trauma-informed theory to ground our work together & practice with a collaborative style that draws on clients’ own knowledge and insight.

I believe that healing takes place when we are courageous enough to witness all that is - grief, disconnection, shame, anger, conflict, fear - and are willing to address it with honesty & compassion. I also believe that healing isn’t meant to be lonely - we often need safe relationship and guidance to support this process. I draw on my education and training as an LMFTA as well as courage and compassion from my own personal healing journey to partner with you as a guide and co-laborer in our work together.

About Me

I was born and raised in Washington state and have lived in Seattle now for over ten years. I attended the University of Washington and received my Bachelor of Art in Psychology in 2016. Before pursuing a career as a therapist, I worked for three and a half years in social services with the community of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. In these early career years, I found myself continually drawn to the emotional, familial, and systemic aspects of struggles we as humans experience - which ultimately contributed toward my path in mental health therapy. After two years of internship as a therapist in community mental health and group practice settings, I graduated with my Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University in 2023.

I am a biracial, Korean American, cis-gendered, straight, spiritually-informed woman. I come to therapy continually working to acknowledge my own identities and will seek to acknowledge yours as well.

I am committed to witnessing you as a unique, individual human being within the systemic context that we live - and to engage our relationship with recognition of and curiosity about those realities. I pursue my own anti-racist, anti-homophobic/transphobic, and systemic-minded development outside of my therapy work. I believe that a large part of healthy relationship involves a willingness to admit wrong & seek repair - I readily practice this within my therapeutic relationships.

Certifications & Training

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (License # MG61420651)

  • Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Washington

  • Lifespan Integration, Level 1 Trained

  • PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator

  • Undoing Institutional Racism training - by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

— Pema Chödrön