Therapy for Third Culture Kids
Therapy for Third Culture Teens, Adults, & Couples
Third Culture Therapist in Oakland, San Francisco, & across California
You belong everywhere and nowhere all at once.
I offer culturally responsive, somatic, and parts-based therapy for third culture kids and adults, first-generation immigrants, and multicultural folx navigating cross-cultural identity and belonging. As a fellow TCK whose family story spans multiple continents and generations of displacement, I bring both lived and professional experience to this work.
This is a space where the complexity of living between worlds is centered, not simplified.
Does this sound like you?
You adapt to every room but feel fully known in none of them
The question "where are you from?" is exhausting to answer
You grieve places, people, and versions of yourself that didn't make the journey
You feel misunderstood by family and friends who didn't share your experience
You carry the weight of a heritage language you never fully learned
Home is a complicated word
You're skilled at belonging but rarely feel it
I work with TCK and multicultural adults who are:
Children of immigrants or members of multi-generational diaspora families
TCKs who grew up across countries, continents, or between cultures
South Asian, AAPI, BIPOC, or multiracial adults navigating cross-cultural identity
Navigating tension between family expectations and their own desires
Holding queer, neurodivergent, or non-conforming identities within traditional family systems
Asking who they are outside of adaptation and survival
What we can explore together
Grief for places, people, languages, and selves that didn't make the journey
What belonging actually feels like for you, not the version you perform
Intergenerational histories and the stories that were never told
Survival and relational patterns that helped you adapt but no longer serve you
Recentering cultural and ancestral wisdom that was marginalized or lost
Identity outside of adaptation, performance, and fitting in
Confidence and self-trust that doesn't depend on being everything to everyone