Asian American Identity & Family Dynamics

The interaction of Eastern and Western value systems, experienced through culture in families and communities, can be healthy and integrated or dysfunctional and contentious. Insight into these often competing value systems can improve individual identity, self-esteem, and family dynamics. 

Anxiety & Stress

A restless mind full of worries, negative thoughts, and fearful consequences will harm relationships, productivity, and overall well-being. Anxiety shows up in a multitude of ways like feeling irritable, frustrated, "spun up", or physical pain, and can even be masked by compulsive behaviors (shopping, pornography, or substance abuse). Long term untreated anxiety and stress can wreak havoc on your body and increase risk for other medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart conditions. Using the science of the body and brain, you can learn to understand and manage your anxiety in a healthy productive way.

Depression

A constant state of negative feelings and perspective, physical exhaustion, inability to concentrate as well as loss of interest in daily living and pleasures can be a hopeless and terrifying way to experience yourself and the world. You can gain insight into your feelings and thoughts, process them in a conscious intentional present manner to reduce your suffering and begin healing.  

Divorce & Separation

When your family relationships break, you feel lost, confused, angry and lonely. There are questions about the past, present, and future. There are conflicting priorities and desires and you need a place to grieve, explore, heal, and a way to move forward in everyone's best interest.  

Emotions & Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

An accurate and science-based understanding of emotions and feelings is absolutely essential for healthy identity, relationships, and careers. Our emotions and feelings are often misunderstood and thus mishandled. Learn the science of emotions to empower you to more effectively manage yourself, and your personal and professional relationships. 

Family & Marriage

Every family comes with its own unique set of unspoken rules and expectations based upon each partner’s childhood family experiences. The experience of parenting and marriage can be far more satisfying when partners proactively create the family culture they want by working through their hidden assumptions and issues, and applying positive parenting approaches.  

Gender Issues

Society places an immense burden on people based on their observed, assumed, or proclaimed gender identity. Exploring and understanding the impact to you and your roles in life as a man, woman, transgender, or questioning is a vitally important aspect of healthy development and effective living. 

Grief & Loss

Whether tragedy strikes unexpectedly or comes after a prolonged period of suffering, processing your beliefs and feelings about your loss is one of the key aspects to moving forward in a manner that honors the loss as well as yourself. Grieving is unique to each person and cannot be rushed or judged, but is essential to creating the necessary peace to keep living in a healthy positive way.

Identity Issues

Who have I been? Who am I now? Who do I want do be? Who do others assume I am? Who do I project myself to be? Who am I afraid of becoming? These are all aspects of exploring your identity and determining the most authentic, integrated, and powerful way to live your life.

Infertility & IVF

Infertility is a lonely and painful journey to experience. Often the suffering is hidden from those we interact with, even people in our inner circles, and you are further hurt by careless ignorant comments or remarks. Finding a place to process all the confusing thoughts and feelings, grieve the many losses, and navigate the complex medical journey allows a safe harbor during difficult times.

Intimacy & Trust

To long for safety in connection is fundamentally human and an experience everyone longs for. Understand and change your own barriers to trusting yourself and others through the science of human connection (i.e. Attachment Psychology). You will dynamically transform your ability to connect and maintain healthy satisfying relationships. 

Mindfulness & Meditation

Learning to train the mind and its fluctuating thoughts is as useful and powerful as training your body for healthy living and physical challenges. Meditation and mindful living can improve your life in a myriad of ways such as decreased reactivity, increased equanimity, decision making clarity, deeper enjoyment and satisfaction of ordinary living or challenging circumstances.

Multicultural Challenges

Increase your ability to live effectively in a multicultural society by exploring and understanding yourself and the Other. Conscientious investigation of both the positive easy aspects of differences, as well as the challenging gut-wrenching parts that disappoint and hurt is crucial to working through division and creating collaboration and community. 

Panic Attacks

The impact of losing control over your body and mind is one that strikes terror in anyone who has experienced a panic attack. Trying to change your mind or overthinking doesn’t work or help. Learn the science behind panic, as well as tools and skills to help you calm your body and brain to positively change your outcome. 

Self Esteem Challenges

It’s impossible to believe in or love yourself when you fail to meet your expectations of who you “should" be. To set yourself free and embrace your most authentic beloved self you will need to examine your beliefs, understand the origin of these ideas, and challenge your perspective, attitude, and choices with a loving compassionate mindset. 

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