I am a Vietnamese American clinician and community builder, born and raised in Maine. When I am not in the office, you can probably find me in search of my next oat milk latte, or catching up on my reading in a local coffee shop. Other things I enjoy (in no particular order) include: Cultivating eclectic playlists on Spotify, being near my rescue dog (Casco), taking a Spin class, and going way down a Wiki hole.

My clinical passions include working with historically marginalized communities here in my home state of Maine (especially as Maine is the least racially and ethnically diverse state in our country [94.2% white] per the 2022 Census, with a Diversity Index [DI] of 18.5% compared to overall national DI of 62%; this metric is used to measure the probability that any two people selected randomly will be from a different race/ ethnicity). 

From a practice standpoint, I work collaboratively from a person-centered outlook, meaning I believe in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship. We deserve to be unconditionally valued, as well as understood in the context of the systems that impact us. If you are curious about the theory side— I incorporate the following in my consideration of the work with each individual’s respective needs:  

• Attachment Theory (Bowlby), 

• as well as Internal Family Systems (Bowen),

• and Polyvagal Theory (Porges), 

as I believe our relationships and how we engage within them shape who we are, the meanings we create, and our outlooks on life.