Therapy that gives you a diagnosis, a plan, and a therapist who remembers what you said

The most common complaint about therapy is not the price

Read what people actually say about bad therapy experiences and a pattern shows up fast: the therapist forgot what they said last week. There was no plan. Months went by with pleasant conversation and no visible progress. Nobody ever named the problem out loud.

That is the part I built my practice against. You get diagnostic clarity early, in plain language, not jargon. You get a written treatment plan with a direction and a rough timeline. And we check progress openly as we go, so if something is not working, we change it instead of coasting.

My style is collaborative. We are co-captains in the work: you are the expert on your life, I bring the clinical training, and we make decisions together.

Therapy that is built to end

Here is an uncomfortable fact about how therapy is usually paid for: everyone in the system gets paid per session, forever. Insurance reimburses visits, not recoveries. Nothing in that structure rewards a therapist for getting you better efficiently, and nothing in it flags a mediocre fit, so people drift for years in therapy that is pleasant, covered, and not working. Staying stuck is, financially speaking, the system's best customer.

I run my practice against that current. You get a diagnosis and a written plan up front, we measure progress out loud, and discharge is the goal from day one. When you have what you came for, we end, and you leave with the skills. Some conditions genuinely need longer care, and I will tell you honestly if yours is one of them. But do the math either way: a focused course of therapy at $200 a session that actually ends costs less than years of copays that never go anywhere, and that is before counting what staying stuck costs you at work and at home.

The goal is not to keep you as a client. The goal is for you to not need me, and to know someone worth sending your friends to.

Individual therapy

Fifty-minute virtual sessions, usually weekly to start. I work with adults, adolescents, and children across New York. The work is active: you will leave sessions with things to try, not just things to think about. I draw on DBT, ACT, CBT, EMDR, and psychodynamic approaches depending on what your situation actually calls for, through a culturally sensitive, gender-affirming lens. I'm fluent in Cantonese and work often with clients navigating family and cultural expectations.

Couples therapy

Most couples wait years too long to come in. By the time they do, the same fight has calcified into a loop both partners can predict and neither can stop. Couples work uses Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method, two of the most researched couples approaches, to break that loop: understand what each of you is actually fighting for underneath the argument, rebuild trust where it cracked, and make the relationship feel like a team again. I trained in settings that specialized in couples therapy, and my own path into psychology started with watching infidelity strain my family, so I do not treat this work as an afterthought to individual therapy.

What I help with

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When you are more than one thing on that list

Most therapists specialize in one lane. That works fine until you live at an intersection: a trans client whose OCD latches onto identity questions, and the OCD specialist has never worked with gender, while the gender specialist keeps treating the intrusive thoughts as exploration. An autistic-ADHD couple whose fights are really two nervous systems missing each other, in front of a couples therapist who knows Gottman but not neurodivergence. A Chinese client with BPD-pattern emotions being handed worksheets built on a level of emotional disclosure their family would find alien.

Those intersections are my actual specialty. My training was deliberately wide: dual-orientation doctorate, placements in OCD specialty care, couples work, gender health, neurodiversity, and substance misuse, and a dissertation on adapting DBT for Chinese communities, chaired by the co-creator of adolescent DBT. So you do not have to slice yourself into the version a specialist can treat. Bring the whole combination, and the treatment plan gets built around how the pieces interact, because that interaction is usually where the pain lives.

How I work

The approach fits the problem, not the other way around. In the first sessions we pick the tools together, and I explain why in plain words.

What working together looks like

1. 1. Free 15-minute consultation

   A short call. You say what is going on, I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. If not, I point you somewhere better.

2. 2. First session: goals and history

   We map what brought you in, what you have tried, and what a win would look like.

3. 3. Diagnostic clarity and a treatment plan

   A plain-language explanation of what is going on, and a plan: which approach, what we will work on, and roughly how long it should take.

4. 4. The work, with progress checks

   Weekly sessions, skills to practice between them, and open reviews of whether it is working. When you have what you came for, we are done. No autopilot.

Fees, insurance, and the honest math

Sessions are $200 for 50 minutes. Here is how people actually pay:

• In-network through Headway or Alma. Aetna, Cigna, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Oscar, Oxford, Horizon BCBS NJ, Meritain, and others. You typically pay only a copay, often $20 to $60.
• Out-of-network with a superbill. You pay $200, I give you a receipt called a superbill, and your PPO plan reimburses you, commonly 50 to 80 percent after your deductible. A $200 session can net out around $40 to $100. The insurance guide walks through it step by step.
• Private pay. $200 flat, no insurance paperwork, nothing on your insurance record. Venmo, Zelle, or card. Sliding scale spots are available based on financial need; ask on the consultation call.

About me

I started in biomedical engineering and realized relationships and communication were more interesting than the math. I volunteered on a suicide hotline, went through my own therapy, and earned my MS and PsyD at LIU Post, where my dissertation on cultural considerations in DBT was chaired by Jill Rathus, co-creator of DBT for adolescents. I completed my postdoctoral training at the UCLA School of Medicine, and I have spent six years treating clients across the lifespan. I also train other clinicians through supervision, didactics, and licensing exam prep, including building thePsychology.ai, an exam prep platform used by psychologists studying for their license.

Clients describe my style as affirming, inquisitive, and open minded. I will be direct with you, because being agreed with for months is not the same as being helped.

Also offered: psychological testing

I conduct full psychological and psychoeducational evaluations: cognitive ability and IQ, giftedness, learning differences, ADHD, and autism, using instruments like the WAIS-5, WISC-V, and WIAT-4. Recent full evaluations have had the complete plain-language report delivered nine days after the first appointment, while much of the field quotes months, and a typical full battery runs about five billed hours, roughly $1,500, against a national norm of $2,500 to $4,500. Read about assessment services.

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