Ivy is a second-generation Asian American Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Life & Relationship Coach, Speaker, and Author who offers trauma-informed and social justice-minded therapy and coaching for individuals, couples, and queer/CNM/kinky folx from a holistic, intuitive, and collaborative approach. She has been supporting her cherished clients for over 19 years domestically and internationally. Her specialties include:

• 1st, 1.5, and 2nd Generation Asian American Mental Health (including knowing and remembering who you are vs who you may have been taught or told to be, addressing and healing family of origin dynamics, decolonizing your mind, healing from racial trauma, etc.)
• Ancestral & Intergenerational Trauma Healing
• Healing Codependency (setting boundaries, recovery from people-pleasing, coming home to yourself after losing yourself in relationships)
• Relationships (healing and deepening with your partner(s), friends, parents, siblings, family, work,  and most importantly, with yourself)
• Self-Love, Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence, & Self-Worth
• Reconnecting to Your Body, Your Emotions, Your Wisdom, Your Intuition, & Your Truth
• Meaning, Fulfillment & Purpose
• Dating, Love, Sex, & Intimacy
• Life & Relationship Coaching
• Major Life Transitions
• Therapy for Therapists
• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (psilocybin in-person where it is legal for therapeutic purposes, ketamine in-person or virtual)
• Psychedelic Integration Therapy

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People of every age, gender, national origin, race, ethnicity, ability, religious/spiritual practice, and sexual orientation are welcome. ​

Experience & Credentials

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• LMFT (Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist)
• M.A. in Marriage & Family Therapy from the University of Southern California
• AAMFT Clinical Fellow
• VeryWellMind Review Board Member
• Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI)-certified practitioner as a psychedelic-assisted therapist (trained in psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA)
• Presented at & worked in collaboration with corporations including Meta, Spotify, Starbucks, WellCare, Nvidia, Benefit, Hinge and more to support employee mental health and wellness, especially within AAPI ERGs and communities
• Featured Speaker on Asian Mental Health & Wellness for International Student Conferences, Inc. (ISC) and the Korea-America Student Conference (KASC)
• Published Author of The Little Girl, The Ocean, and The Moon & Healing Codependency
• Podcast interview with Mark Groves @createthelove: Navigating Relationships & Codependency 
• Podcast interview with Shaun Galanos @thelovedrive: Recovering From Codependency
• Podcast interview with Jessica Nguyen @projectvoicepod: Healing Your Relationship With Your Parents
• Podcast Interview with Veronica Thai @curiousmonki: How To Find Healing for your Innermost Self 
• ​Writer at Medium.com 
• Certified yoga instructor via 8 Limbs
• Trained in Brainspotting, EMDR & Somatic Experiencing (SE)
• Ke Ala Hoku/Ancient Lomi Lomi practitioner studying with Jody Mountain, Lineage of Light​
• Featured Speaker at TEDx: Panama Jungle, Inspired London, & Seattle Ignite
• Speaker & workshop facilitator on topics including mental health (emotional health + relational health + behavioral health), self-care and self-love, communal aid and healing, consent, boundary-setting, processing emotions, and reclaiming your voice and power
• Lived experience as an Asian American female, daughter of immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Macau raised in the Midwest, survivor of childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual assault, middle-class, able-bodied, retired Professional Dominatrix and kink educator, writer, artist, divorcee, former stepparent of five children between the ages of 9-19, and social justice advocate. I hold all of these identities equally, with great reverence and deep gratitude. In our work together, you will be seen, honored, and supported as all of who you are, as you have been, and as you will become

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