Welcome! You may find yourself here for one of the following reasons:

• Maybe you’ve been walking through the world with a wound caused by complex family dynamics, deeply painful experiences that turned your world upside down, or a general belief in “not enough-ness". 

• Maybe you were born here—maybe your parents were too—and yet you still feel like you don’t quite belong. You’re straddling two very different worlds, and it takes a lot of effort and masking to fit in. It’s not just about growing up speaking a different language at home or the lunches you were sent to school with that looked nothing like the Lunchables or school pizza the other kids had. It’s about the million little ways you've felt the difference between the dominant, American culture and the culture of your own people the expectation to befriend and marry others of your community, the challenging and confusing expectation of assimilating into the American culture without letting go of your culture of origin, the constant reminder that your ancestors struggled and sacrificed so much to get here that any challenges you face seem to pale in comparison. 

• Maybe you’re the eldest child. The eldest daughter. The caretaker. The parentified one. The peacemaker. The perfectionist. The people-pleaser. You've lived a life of “doing the right thing”, avoiding disruption, upsetting others, and conflict. You’ve lived for so long to fit a mold you were placed in, and now it feels uncomfortable and small because you’ve outgrown it. You're trying to figure out how to break free of it—and maybe you're afraid to figure out who you really are. 

You may be searching for a protected space and the support of a professional, trusted other as you root down and anchor in your authentic self. Or you may be searching for healing and wholeness. That’ll come from within—but there’s power in having someone bear witness to it; there's power in having someone else sit with you in what feels intolerable.