Toward feeling more at home in your body, your self, and community.
Offering individual therapy, therapist consultation, and training grounded in cultural humility, anti-oppression, and working toward liberation for the self and collective.
👋 I’m Nicole (she/her)
“What’s wrong with me?” is a common question I hear in the therapy room. Sometimes it’s explicit. Sometimes it’s in the background, as someone describes why they’re seeking therapy. It’s a question I understand. Sometimes, it feels like symptoms just won’t go away and life is a constant struggle.
But it’s also a question that reduces us to a symptom. As a white-passing, mixed-race Korean American eldest daughter, a late-recognized neurodivergent woman, and TCK, I am familiar with how reducing our complex lived experience to a symptom can lead us to incomplete conclusions, temporary solutions, and painful, potentially retraumatizing self-abandonment.
As a therapist, I offer the question, “How did this become the way you survive?” From this question, we can co-create a therapy where all sides of you feel welcome in the process. I value supporting and empowering clients to care for their whole selves, outside, between, and within, as they reach their wellness goals.
Outside
Outside is about your environments, past and present.
Families of origin, families of choice, cultural heritages, jobs, clubs, faith, childhood tv shows, social media feed, schools, politics, structural oppression, etc.
In what ways have these spaces, values, and stories impacted you? In what ways have these spaces supported or challenged you in the past? In the present?
Between
Between is about your relationships.
We are constantly navigating relationships, whether it’s your family members, friends, partners, coalitions, coworkers, bosses, book club members, pets, plants, dates, cashiers, etc. Or, you might be navigating being alone.
In what ways have these interactions been sources of joy, support, or calm? In what ways have they been traumatic and reasons to fight, flee, fawn, or shutdown?
Within
And within is about what’s happening inside.
Within our bodies, we hold the impact of our environments and our relationships. Within our bodies, we also hold a complex compass of sensations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that point us toward our unique needs, wants, and purpose.
In what ways can this knowledge help you nourish yourself more? What might that nourishment do for you, outside and between?