About

I reside and work on Duwamish land and identify as a cis, straight, neuro-typical, able-bodied and thin-privileged, mixed-Chinese woman of color. I have found myself deeply curious and passionate about how our early relationships form us - influenced from my time as a case manager for families adopting from China, and later unhoused women and children in Seattle. I spent my internship year of graduate school with war-affected youth in Northern Uganda. All these experiences led me to develop my speciality as a trauma and abuse therapist, specifically engaging through the lens of attachment. I initially worked as a crisis Child and Family Therapist and then shifted focus toward transracial adult adoptees and survivors of sexual and spiritual abuse. In addition to practicing therapy, I teach at The Seattle School as Affiliate Faculty and created the MACP Concentration in Trauma and Abuse and its curriculum. I am a founder of the Allender Center where I trained and supervised clinicians who sought to specialize in Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy.

on the lighter side: I am a Northwest native. I love cycling, baking, stand up paddle-boarding (especially when sighting starfish and turtles), knitting, dancing, Halloween costumes, slow meals with friends, running, and laughing until I cry.