As a refugee immigrant to the United States and someone who has held multiple marginalized identities throughout my life, I understand the dire need for social justice in healing. As a field, if we are not actively advocating for social systems that are equitable, non-exploitative and unoppressive then we would be missing the root cause of suffering for most of our clients and hence not providing sustainable interventions. Through my work, I hope to empower clients to be advocates of their own healing and understand that they do have the power to transform themselves and society.

I am a recent graduate of the Mental Health Counseling & Behavioral Medicine Program at Boston University School of Medicine and hence ecstatic about finally being able to provide my services to the most marginalized and underserved peoples and communities (across gender/sexuality, ethnicity/race, class or citizenship). In addition to serving people who hold these identities, I also have a special place in my heart for youth as I believe if we want a better future, we have to empower our youth who are the future. It is this same idea that led me to major in Youth Advocacy and Education Studies for my undergraduate at Texas Christian University. Nonetheless, my clinical training and practice has involved both youth and adults hence I am honored to be able to work with both populations.

Thus far, my clinical practice has focused on patients in crisis, coping through traumatic events including traumatic loss of loved ones and who have significant trauma histories. Unfortunately, people who experience trauma also have cooccurring mental health conditions hence I have experience treating patients who are struggling with addiction, anger, adjustment disorders, depression and anxiety, psychosis/schizophrenia and emotional regulation. Since I have worked with patients with a broad presentation, my approach is eclectic, but I am more aligned with mindfulness-based therapies such as ACT and DBT as I believe in the strong connection between the body, mind and spirit.