Therapy for Anxiety & Burnout
Therapy for Teens, Adults, & Couples experiencing anxiety & burnout
Anxiety & burnout therapist in Oakland, San Francisco, & across California
You've been holding it together for a long time.
I offer culturally responsive, somatic, and parts-based therapy for teens, adults, and couples navigating anxiety and burnout. Many of my clients are first-generation, South Asian, Asian, or multicultural adults carrying the weight of high achievement, family expectation, and the pressure of performing competence in systems that were never quite built for them. Drawing on a liberation and decolonial lens, we go beneath the surface to address root causes, not just symptoms.
This is a space where you get to be exhausted
Does this sound like you?
Your mind is always working — replaying conversations, anticipating problems, scanning for what might go wrong
You appear calm and capable on the outside while quietly running on fumes underneath
Rest feels impossible, or like something you have to earn first
You hold yourself to standards you would never apply to anyone else
Your body carries what your mind won't — tension, fatigue, disrupted sleep
You've achieved a lot by most measures and still feel like you're one mistake away from losing it all
For some of us, that anxiety isn't irrational. It's inherited. It knows things our conscious mind hasn't fully processed yet.
I work with anxious and burned out teens, adults, and couples who are:
High-achieving and high-functioning — holding everything together while quietly falling apart
First-generation, South Asian, Asian, or multicultural adults carrying family sacrifice and expectation
Burned out from years of performing competence in environments not designed for them
Navigating perfectionism, chronic self-criticism, and the exhaustion of never feeling like enough
Struggling with people-pleasing and the guilt that follows any attempt to change
Teens navigating academic pressure and first-gen family expectations
Ready to understand where the exhaustion is actually coming from
What we can explore together
The roots of your anxiety — what it's protecting, what it knows, and where it came from
Burnout and nervous system regulation — building actual capacity, not just coping strategies
Perfectionism and the question of what good enough could actually feel like
People-pleasing, limits, and learning to tolerate the discomfort of disappointing others
Intergenerational anxiety — the fears you inherited that may not even belong to you
Your body's role in all of it — somatic work to move what talk alone can't shift
Confidence and self-trust outside of achievement and approval
What rest, ease, and actually feeling okay might look like for you