Online in New York
(Online Only)
Many of the people I work with are insightful, capable, and used to being the strong one—but inside, they feel overwhelmed, lonely, or unsure how to change the patterns they keep repeating. Therapy with me is not about quick fixes or surface-level advice. It’s about creating a space where you can be fully seen and understood while we gently and honestly look at what isn’t working and why. My style is warm, direct, and deeply relational. I help people understand their emotional patterns, attachment wounds, identity questions, and relationship dynamics so they can live with more clarity, self-trust, and freedom.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Family, Group, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Asian, Black / African American, Buddhist, Hindu, Hispanic / Latino, LGBTQ+, Native American, Persons with Disabilities, Sikh, Women clients.
Languages: English
Treatment Approach
- Art Therapy Uses creative activities like drawing, painting, or sculpture as a way to express emotions. It is especially helpful when words are hard to find.
- Contemplative Psychotherapy Combines mindfulness and meditation practices with modern psychology. It encourages awareness and compassion as part of the healing process.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Existential / Humanistic Therapy Encourages people to explore meaning, freedom, and authenticity in their lives. It focuses on personal growth and living in alignment with one’s values.
- Feminist Therapy Addresses how gender roles, power, and social inequality affect mental health. It empowers clients to challenge limiting beliefs and systems.
- Gestalt Therapy Encourages awareness of thoughts, feelings, and actions in the present moment. It helps people integrate different parts of themselves for wholeness.
- Jungian Therapy Draws on Carl Jung’s ideas about archetypes, dreams, and the collective unconscious. It helps people explore deeper layers of meaning.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Combines mindfulness practices with CBT to prevent depression relapse. It helps people notice thoughts without judgment and respond more calmly.
- Multicultural Therapy Acknowledges the role of culture, race, and identity in mental health. It values diversity and adapts treatment to each person’s background.
- Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) Emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and authenticity. It provides a safe space for self-discovery and growth.
- Psychoeducational Therapy Provides education and coping tools about mental health conditions. It empowers clients with knowledge and practical skills.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) Focuses on solutions and future goals rather than past problems. It is practical, short-term, and goal-driven.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
- Transpersonal Therapy Integrates spirituality and higher states of consciousness with psychology. It encourages growth beyond the individual self.
Approach Description: My approach to therapy is relational, trauma-informed, and influenced by contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology. I believe that most of our suffering makes sense in the context of our lives, our relationships, and our nervous systems, and that therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong” with you, but about understanding how you came to be the way you are and creating the conditions for change.
In our work together, we will pay attention to your present-moment experience—your thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and relational patterns—because this is where change actually becomes possible. I work slowly and collaboratively, and I see therapy as something we do together, not something I do to you. My style is warm, direct, and engaged, and I am not a silent therapist. I will talk with you, think with you, and help you notice patterns that may be hard to see on your own.
Much of my work is with people who feel different, misunderstood, or like they have had to survive rather than live—this includes neurodivergent people, LGBTQ+ clients, people in alternative relationship structures, sex workers, people in recovery, and people on spiritual paths. Many of my clients are highly sensitive, deeply feeling people who have experienced trauma, burnout, or a sense of not belonging.
I am particularly influenced by Buddhist psychology, which means we work with compassion, mindfulness, and an understanding that pain is part of being human, but suffering can be transformed through awareness, relationship, and practice. I also work from a harm reduction perspective, which means we focus on reducing suffering and increasing choice and agency rather than forcing change before you are ready.
Above all, I aim to create a therapy space where you can be fully honest—about your thoughts, your feelings, your sexuality, your fears, your anger, your grief, and even your thoughts about death—without being judged or pathologized. Many clients tell me they feel understood in a way they haven’t before, and that therapy becomes a place where they can finally exhale and begin to make sense of their lives.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 140-200
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- I offer reparations pricing of $126 a session. Otherwise, my sliding scale begins at $140 and goes up to my full fee of $200 a session. Couples sessions are $250. I'm open to discussing and considering anything outside of this range on a case-by-case basis. While I don't take insurance, I'm happy to work with you on the session fee and to pursue reimbursement from your insurance.
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Liberation Therapy LMHC
- Female, Gender Fluid, Male, Non-Binary
- License # 015479
- Licensed in New York
- Practicing Since 2021
Liberation Therapy Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available Online for residents of New York
- Online Therapy Details: teletherapy
My work is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in mindfulness, attachment theory, and somatic awareness. I believe that many of our struggles are not signs that something is “wrong” with us, but are adaptations to our relationships, families, and environments. In therapy, we work to understand these patterns with compassion while also building new ways of relating to yourself and others.
I have experience working with individuals and groups navigating trauma, attachment and relationship issues, identity exploration, gender and sexuality, systemic oppression, anxiety, depression, adoption and foster care, fertility, neurodivergence, substance use, PTSD, trauma, sexual abuse, religious trauma, and major life transitions. I also work with people exploring ethical non-monogamy, unconventional relationships, and questions around meaning, purpose, and spirituality. I'm also a specialist in death and dying and offer end-of-life care, death planning, and grief support.
Many of my clients are therapists, creatives, caregivers, and people living on the fridges.