| San Francisco, California | Seattle, Washington |
Therapy where you don’t have to educate your therapist. Ever.
You were never meant to carry it all. It’s time to put it all down.
Therapy for Asian Americans navigating trauma, identity, and anxiety in California, Washington, and Florida
In-person in SF & Telehealth throughout CA, WA, & FL
Do any of these sound like you?
And how therapy with me can help:
“I never learned to talk about feelings — only to bottle them up.”
→ In therapy, you’ll learn how to name what you feel, trust your voice, and speak your truth — without guilt or fear.
“Success was supposed to make it all better, but I still feel empty.”
→ Together, we’ll unpack the pressure to perform and help you rediscover your worth beyond achievement.
“My family says they love me, but their love never feels safe.”
→ We’ll explore the difference between love and safety — and help you build relationships that honor both.
“I’m tired of being ‘not enough’ — or ‘too much.’”
→ Therapy can help you break free from these impossible standards and feel grounded in your enough-ness.
“I want to heal my intergenerational trauma, but I don’t know where to begin.”
→ This is where healing begins: by naming what you’ve carried and learning how to put it down, piece by piece.
It’s exhausting to shrink ourselves or erase our stories to fit in, to meet the expectations of others (people pleasing tendencies) and depend our stories on the approval of others.
In therapy with me, you can simply start being seen, being intently listened to, and being celebrated in every part of who you are. You do not have to educate me about your culture or your identities because therapy should be about you, not about educating me.
Whatever story you carry, your story isn’t too much.
You’ve spent so much of your life navigating the invisible maze of expectations — family, culture, survival, respectability — all while trying to figure out who you are beneath it all. And that’s exhausting.
You’ve learned to stay quiet. To be the good child. To not rock the boat.
You’ve spent years masking your pain with perfection, achievement, or emotional distance — because being vulnerable never felt safe.
You might come from a family that says “we love you,” but whose love is entangled with pressure, silence, or guilt.
You might have left a religious or cultural community, but your body still holds the memories — tightening, bracing, flinching at the things you were never allowed to question.
You may be wondering: Who am I without their approval? Without the mask?
Healing doesn’t have to mean erasing parts of who you are.
It can look like reclaiming your voice, your boundaries, your joy — and rewriting the story your body has been carrying for too long.
Asian American Trauma Therapist | Asian Trauma Therapist
| San Francisco | San Jose | Seattle |
Couples and Relationship Therapy
Find the cycles of conflicts and disconnection, grow in your understanding of your partner, and discover how you can re-connect and re-engage in your relationships.
| $300/50-min |
Individual Therapy
Find your healing in a space where all of your being is welcome. I offer a space where you can work on what matters to you the most.
| $250/50-min |
IFS Trauma Recovery Intensive Therapy
You can request a 4-hour intensive session for trauma recovery. You and the clinician will spend 4 hours in one day to extensively process trauma and heal your parts without the time pressure.
| $1375 per 4-hour intensive appointment [Weekend]
Specializing in:
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Intergenerational Trauma & Identity
We inherit more than just genes—we carry stories, silence, and survival. This therapy helps you unpack family legacies, heal generational wounds, and reconnect with your identity so you can move forward with clarity and wholeness.
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Perfectionism & Anxiety Therapy
When success is expected and rest feels like failure, anxiety often hides behind achievement. This therapy helps Asian Americans untangle perfectionism, challenge internalized pressure, and build a more compassionate relationship with themselves—beyond the gold stars and silent suffering.
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Family & Couples Therapy
Whether it’s navigating generational divides, unspoken expectations, or communication breakdowns, this therapy creates space for honest connection. We help couples and families understand each other more deeply, repair trust, and build relationships rooted in empathy, not obligation.
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ADHD Evaluation & Coaching
ADHD isn’t just about distraction—it’s about how your brain dances with time, focus, and emotion. Through affirming evaluation and personalized coaching, we help you understand your unique wiring, build supportive habits, and turn overwhelm & self-doubt into clarity and self-trust.
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IFS Parts Work Intensive
There’s a reason you feel pulled in different directions—those “parts” of you are trying to protect and survive. In this IFS (Internal Family Systems) intensive, we dive deep to meet those parts with curiosity, not judgment, so you can heal core wounds, unburden your system, and lead from your calm, compassionate Self — to get you better faster than traditional weekly therapy.
Hi, I’m Dr. Wonbin (she/her). I’m a queer Korean therapist specializing in trauma and anxiety healing for Asian Americans.
I know what it’s like to grow up in a family where survival meant silence. I wasn’t the quiet, obedient child people expected. I was hyper-independent and defiant—not because I wanted to rebel, but because I couldn’t live with the pressure of pretending everything was okay.
It wasn’t until I met my old therapist, Kyong Mi, that something shifted. For the first time, I didn’t have to explain my culture, my grief, or why being “a good kid” still felt like a wound. She saw me fully—and I finally exhaled. That experience changed everything.
That’s the kind of space I now offer to my clients. A space where you don’t have to educate your therapist about your family, your culture, or your identities—because therapy should be about you, not about translation.
Here, you get to bring all of you: the overachiever, the cycle-breaker, the one carrying family expectations and private pain.
You don’t have to shrink or explain. You just get to heal.
