About

Who I am as a psychologist is deeply connected to who I am as a person.

I am born and raised in a working-class family in Southeast China. I am first-generation in my family to attend college and receive and advanced degree. I left home and moved to the United States as an international student in 2008, leaving everyone and everything behind with a dream to become a psychologist and a healer. That journey — navigating cultural adjustment, identities, dreams and grief, immigration injustice, and sense of belonging between worlds — shapes how I see human transformation and how I show up in this work. What I have experienced has taught me resilience, flexibility, cultural curiosity, an awe for human universality, and an appreciation for differences. Who I am as a psychologist is deeply tied to who I am as a person, evolving into a practice grounded in curiosity, depth, and a genuine fascination and respect for our innate wisdom and basic goodness.

Where Eastern Wisdom Traditions meet Western Psychology

Relational Wounds Heal in Connection

Anti-oppressive, Identity Affirming Stance

Mind-Body Integration

Empowerment & Innate Wisdom

Inner Alchemy Psychology is a space for deeper healing and transformation. I believe that many of the ways we struggle today began as ways of adapting—to family, culture, relationships, expectations, and the demands of life. Over time, these adaptations can leave us disconnected from our needs, our bodies, our relationships, and our sense of who we are.

Therapy can be a process of going deeper: understanding the patterns that shaped us, reconnecting with the parts of ourselves we have learned to suppress or leave behind, and integrating the many dimensions of our experience. Inner Alchemy is about cultivating greater self-trust, authenticity, connection, and freedom—so that you can feel more fully at home in yourself and in your life.

Beyond Insight: The Path to Integration

Many intellectually minded women arrive with years of self-analysis, yet a persistent tension remains. We explore the profound intelligence behind these defenses, moving past surface-level understanding to address root-cause psychological patterns. This process invites a deeper listening to what symptoms are trying to articulate.

True integration begins when intellectual insight meets somatic and emotional resolution. Our work fosters a nuanced self-inquiry, creating space for emotional vulnerability within a rigorous, respectful therapeutic container.

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• The Unconscious & The Soul

The Principles of Depth Psychology

Depth psychology looks beneath immediate symptoms to engage the hidden realms of the psyche—exploring dreamwork, bodily wisdom, and unconscious patterns to foster lasting, authentic transformation.

The Unconscious Realm

Symbols & Archetypes

Somatic Integration

Uncovering forgotten memories, disowned emotions, and underlying motives that quietly govern daily choices and relational patterns.

Engaging personal mythology, active imagination, and dream metaphor to reconnect with symbolic guidance and innate selfhood.

Bridging cognitive insight with felt bodily experience, allowing emotional resolution to take root deeply within the nervous system.

— The Path to Wholeness

Turning Toward What Longs to Be Heard

Rather than attempting to eliminate discomfort or optimize behavior, depth work treats symptoms as meaningful invitations. Anxiety, grief, and persistent life blocks often point toward aspects of ourselves waiting to be integrated into a larger, more resilient sense of being.

• First Steps

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• First Steps

Schedule a free Consultation call

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