Compassionate Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, and Burnout
You’ve mastered the art of doing and achieving, but ease still feels out of reach. Together, we gently untangle patterns of perfectionism, worry, and overfunctioning so you can move through life with more clarity and self-trust.
Feel like yourself again, in your relationships and your life.
This is therapy for growing with intention.
You’re thoughtful, self-aware, and engaged with life. On the outside, things may be working, but internally, you feel tense, exhausted, or harder on yourself than you’d like to be.
You’ve learned how to keep going, to show up for others, to hold it all together. But you’re starting to wonder if what you've been calling "anxiety" or "burnout" is actually something older: patterns rooted in how you grew up, how your brain is wired, and what you've been carrying for everyone else. This is the kind of therapy that goes there.
There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re simply ready for something different: more ease, more clarity, and a way of moving through life that actually feels like you.
If this feels familiar, you’re in the right place.
You may be experiencing…
Anxiety and Difficult EmotionsHigh standards that leave you feeling exhausted or never “enough”
Chronic stress or difficulty slowing down
A tendency to overthink, overfunction, or second-guess yourself
Perfectionism, Burnout, and Self-DoubtA Desire for More Fulfulling Relationships and Personal GrowthFeeling stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing
Trying to understand yourself, your upbringing, or how to thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
A lingering sense that you’ve outgrown parts of your life and are ready for something different
Areas We Might Explore Together
Many of the people I work with come in feeling a mix of things: anxiety, exhaustion, hopefulness about a future with less of the past, or simply an intuition that something deeper is ready to shift. While every person’s experience is different, there are a few common areas we can focus on in our work together.
Your mind doesn’t quite turn off, even if life looks “fine” on the outside; it worries, braces, and struggles to fully enjoy the good. We work with the patterns underneath the worry so you can feel more grounded, clear, and at ease.
Past stressful experiences can continue to shape how you think and feel even if life has gotten pretty great since. EMDR helps your nervous system process what’s been stuck so that it no longer has the same hold on you.
When you’ve grown up navigating family dynamics, cultural expectations, and intergenerational trauma, it can be hard to explain how deeply it impacted you. This work helps you make sense of those patterns and relate to yourself with more clarity and self-trust.
As a Highly Sensitive Person, you feel deeply, think deeply, and take in more than most people. And that can become exhausting. This work helps you understand your sensitivity and harness it in a way that actually supports you.
Hi, I’m Kat.
Corporate Professional Turned Trauma Therapist
I’m an Asian American therapist in California who works with thoughtful, sensitive people navigating anxiety, trauma, and burnout. My clients are the ones used to holding a lot internally and in their lives. Before becoming a therapist, I worked in the corporate world, so I understand the pressure to perform, achieve, and hold it all together.
As a therapist, my style is warm and down-to-earth. I’m not the type to sit back silently, but instead gets curious and creative in order to help you make sense of things in a real, human way. Together, we sort through your emotions, catch your blind spots (we all have them!), and gently work through the patterns you’ve learned to cope with. Bringing in evidence-based approaches, like EMDR and somatic therapy, helps create change at a deeper level. Over time, this work helps you feel more like yourself again: more at ease, more secure in your relationships, and more grounded in who you are and what you want.
I'm so glad you're here.
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Curious About Therapy Together?
Here’s how to get started!
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This 20-minute phone call is a great opportunity to learn more about therapy with me and ask any questions you have. There is no obligation; just a way to see if it would be a good fit to work together!
Send me a note here.
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Start attending virtual therapy sessions based on a tailored game-plan that we create together. It may be weekly therapy sessions, an EMDR intensive to accelerate healing over the course of days or weeks, or another bespoke approach that fits you and your life.
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Through consistency, self-reflection, and getting out of your comfort zone, many people begin to see positive changes in how they feel and move about the world. There is no particular timeline for healing, but each step you take means moving toward more clarity and growth.
Want to get started? Drop me a note here.
Start with a Conversation
Reaching out doesn’t require having everything figured out. If you feel curious about working together, you’re welcome to get in touch for a consultation. We can explore about what’s bringing you here and what you’re hoping for in this next chapter of life.
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
— Paul Coelho, author