Asian Therapists in San Lorenzo, CA
Laura Goossens
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
3 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
My practice & sliding scale spots are full. Please message for waitlist. Talk Less; Change More. Hello, I'm Laura. I'm passionate about helping people improve their Present by addressing their Past. People describe my style as collaborative, warm, direct, goal-focused, thorough, & patient. I help clients in their work toward self-esteem, healthy relationships, grounded communication, stress management, improved mood, and access to services/resources. Communities I belong to and serve: disabled/chronic illness, sex positive, kink/polyam/alt lifestyle, genderqueer, fat positive, and neurodivergent folks. Free 30-minute video consult.
My practice & sliding scale spots are full. Please message for waitlist. Talk Less; Change More. Hello, I'm Laura. I'm passionate about helping people improve their Present by addressing their Past. People describe my style as collaborative, warm, direct, goal-focused, thorough, & patient. I help clients in their work toward self-esteem, healthy relationships, grounded communication, stress management, improved mood, and access to services/resources. Communities I belong to and serve: disabled/chronic illness, sex positive, kink/polyam/alt lifestyle, genderqueer, fat positive, and neurodivergent folks. Free 30-minute video consult.
Hello! I’m Gloria, a Filipina licensed clinical psychologist originally from Guam, now based in the Bay Area, CA. I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and have specialized training in treating depression, anxiety, addiction, and multicultural concerns, areas that continue to guide my work today. My clinical experience includes working in a variety of settings, where I’ve supported clients through identity exploration, emotional challenges, and major life transitions.
Hello! I’m Gloria, a Filipina licensed clinical psychologist originally from Guam, now based in the Bay Area, CA. I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and have specialized training in treating depression, anxiety, addiction, and multicultural concerns, areas that continue to guide my work today. My clinical experience includes working in a variety of settings, where I’ve supported clients through identity exploration, emotional challenges, and major life transitions.
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Does it seem like you and your partner keep repeating the same conflicts? Are old resentments and misunderstandings creating distance and disconnection? In the safety of couples therapy, I help partners slow down repetitive cycles. We work to understand the patterns driving conflict and tension so that we can repair, heal and rebuild. My approach is warm and collaborative while helping you tune in to your dynamics. Restoring communication, trust, intimacy, and connection are some of the common themes of my work with couples. Often clients begin to feel some relief after the first session.
Does it seem like you and your partner keep repeating the same conflicts? Are old resentments and misunderstandings creating distance and disconnection? In the safety of couples therapy, I help partners slow down repetitive cycles. We work to understand the patterns driving conflict and tension so that we can repair, heal and rebuild. My approach is warm and collaborative while helping you tune in to your dynamics. Restoring communication, trust, intimacy, and connection are some of the common themes of my work with couples. Often clients begin to feel some relief after the first session.
Welcome to my practice, where I specialize in providing supportive psychotherapy for ADHD. I also offer neurodiversity affirming ADHD evaluations. If you've been experiencing challenges in your work or relationships, you're not alone. Many of my clients seek support in navigating these areas and are eager to cultivate new perspectives and skills. Your brain is a remarkable beauty and inherently whole just as it is. However, it's undeniable that the world around us often fails to fully accept and accommodate our unique strengths and vulnerabilities.
Welcome to my practice, where I specialize in providing supportive psychotherapy for ADHD. I also offer neurodiversity affirming ADHD evaluations. If you've been experiencing challenges in your work or relationships, you're not alone. Many of my clients seek support in navigating these areas and are eager to cultivate new perspectives and skills. Your brain is a remarkable beauty and inherently whole just as it is. However, it's undeniable that the world around us often fails to fully accept and accommodate our unique strengths and vulnerabilities.
Jiyoung
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, EMDR
1 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
I also offer bilingual therapy in Korean.
Welcome! I’m glad you’re here.
Are you overwhelmed by anxiety, stuck in negative thought patterns, or feeling distant from yourself or others? As a trauma-informed therapist, I support individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, ADHD, cultural identity, and relational stress. I specialize in helping clients explore the emotional patterns shaped by early experiences, family dynamics, and intergenerational expectations, particularly in immigrant and multicultural families.
I also offer bilingual therapy in Korean.
Welcome! I’m glad you’re here.
Are you overwhelmed by anxiety, stuck in negative thought patterns, or feeling distant from yourself or others? As a trauma-informed therapist, I support individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, ADHD, cultural identity, and relational stress. I specialize in helping clients explore the emotional patterns shaped by early experiences, family dynamics, and intergenerational expectations, particularly in immigrant and multicultural families.
Navigating relationships is complicated and challenging. We often find ourselves entangled in various dynamics—breakups, romantic issues, family conflicts, and workplace dilemmas. These encounters can evoke a spectrum of emotions: depression, anxiety, and stress, manifesting also as insomnia, rumination, and physical discomfort.
Navigating relationships is complicated and challenging. We often find ourselves entangled in various dynamics—breakups, romantic issues, family conflicts, and workplace dilemmas. These encounters can evoke a spectrum of emotions: depression, anxiety, and stress, manifesting also as insomnia, rumination, and physical discomfort.
Access Mental Health, Inc
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, MD
1 Endorsed
Pleasanton, CA 94588
We understand asking for help may not come easy and can be a difficult process. We believe taking those first few steps are one of many ways we believe can impact your quality of life. We take note of each significant accomplishment and celebrate success and help individuals increase self-confidence and awareness.
We understand asking for help may not come easy and can be a difficult process. We believe taking those first few steps are one of many ways we believe can impact your quality of life. We take note of each significant accomplishment and celebrate success and help individuals increase self-confidence and awareness.
I have 10 years of experience working with marginalized communities, and specialize in working with Asian American individuals and couples.
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. Have you ever believed that if you are struggling, it is your fault? That if you just try hard enough, you should feel better - and if you don’t feel better, it’s because you aren’t trying hard enough?
But Asians experience stressors that are unique to our identities that deserve care. The desire to pay back our parents for their sacrifices. The responsibility to “save face” and to put up a constant front. The intergenerational traumas we inherit from our families that have endured war, famine, displacement, genocide, and colonization. Weariness of feeling like you don't belong anywhere.
I have 10 years of experience working with marginalized communities, and specialize in working with Asian American individuals and couples.
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. Have you ever believed that if you are struggling, it is your fault? That if you just try hard enough, you should feel better - and if you don’t feel better, it’s because you aren’t trying hard enough?
But Asians experience stressors that are unique to our identities that deserve care. The desire to pay back our parents for their sacrifices. The responsibility to “save face” and to put up a constant front. The intergenerational traumas we inherit from our families that have endured war, famine, displacement, genocide, and colonization. Weariness of feeling like you don't belong anywhere.
Therapy is a journey of personal growth and healing, whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or life challenges. I aim to foster a space for clients to be comfortable getting vulnerable and to explore their thoughts and feelings in a supportive environment. I am here to guide clients through their life journey, offering a compassionate and non-judgmental space where they can explore their experiences and develop coping strategies. Together, we will work collaboratively to help clients achieve their goals and find a sense of balance and fulfillment in their lives.
Therapy is a journey of personal growth and healing, whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or life challenges. I aim to foster a space for clients to be comfortable getting vulnerable and to explore their thoughts and feelings in a supportive environment. I am here to guide clients through their life journey, offering a compassionate and non-judgmental space where they can explore their experiences and develop coping strategies. Together, we will work collaboratively to help clients achieve their goals and find a sense of balance and fulfillment in their lives.
Please email an introduction and to set up a consult call.
Do you want a healthier and more fulfilling sex life? Many people are impacted by insufficient sexual education, shame from cultural taboos, and past experiences that leave them feeling confused or hurt. I help people recover from sexual oppression, repression, shame and sexual expectations from societal, familial, cultural or religious systems. Whether you are navigating your needs individually or in partnership(s), sex therapy with can help you achieve your goals.
Please email an introduction and to set up a consult call.
Do you want a healthier and more fulfilling sex life? Many people are impacted by insufficient sexual education, shame from cultural taboos, and past experiences that leave them feeling confused or hurt. I help people recover from sexual oppression, repression, shame and sexual expectations from societal, familial, cultural or religious systems. Whether you are navigating your needs individually or in partnership(s), sex therapy with can help you achieve your goals.
I can provide services in both English and Vietnamese.
I treat children and adults who identify as LGBQTIA+ and/or Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM). The main issues I work with are challenges around marginalized and intersecting identities and major life transitions.
I can provide services in both English and Vietnamese.
I treat children and adults who identify as LGBQTIA+ and/or Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM). The main issues I work with are challenges around marginalized and intersecting identities and major life transitions.
As a second-generation Chinese American, former marketing executive, and Highly Sensitive Person myself, I understand the pull toward a life that feels more fully your own.
You’re competent, thoughtful, and often the one others rely on — yet internally you may second-guess yourself, worry about disappointing people, or feel a quiet pressure to get things “right.” You hold yourself to high standards and can be harder on yourself than anyone else, carrying a lingering sense of not quite being enough despite what you’ve achieved. Life may look stable on the outside, but part of you senses that you’re capable of more ease, joy, and connection than you’re currently experiencing. You’re not just looking for relief — you’re ready to step into a fuller, more expansive version of your life.
As a second-generation Chinese American, former marketing executive, and Highly Sensitive Person myself, I understand the pull toward a life that feels more fully your own.
You’re competent, thoughtful, and often the one others rely on — yet internally you may second-guess yourself, worry about disappointing people, or feel a quiet pressure to get things “right.” You hold yourself to high standards and can be harder on yourself than anyone else, carrying a lingering sense of not quite being enough despite what you’ve achieved. Life may look stable on the outside, but part of you senses that you’re capable of more ease, joy, and connection than you’re currently experiencing. You’re not just looking for relief — you’re ready to step into a fuller, more expansive version of your life.
As a Stanford psychologist, I have been trained to address depression, anxiety, and other mental health topics, I also have specialties in sex therapy, LGBTQ+ issues, and issues facing Asian Americans and other folks of color.
Exploring our identities, improving our relationships, and navigating life's stresses can be challenging and overwhelming. With warmth, collaboration, and action, I can help clients identify harmful patterns and make healthier decisions. This can look like uprooting internalized shame, exploring identities, journeying through transitions, processing trauma and stress, expanding coping skills, building self-compassion, managing depression and anxiety, and better connecting with our selves and our communities. Together, we can create a custom plan that builds upon your unique strengths and empowers you in pursuing your chosen goals!
As a Stanford psychologist, I have been trained to address depression, anxiety, and other mental health topics, I also have specialties in sex therapy, LGBTQ+ issues, and issues facing Asian Americans and other folks of color.
Exploring our identities, improving our relationships, and navigating life's stresses can be challenging and overwhelming. With warmth, collaboration, and action, I can help clients identify harmful patterns and make healthier decisions. This can look like uprooting internalized shame, exploring identities, journeying through transitions, processing trauma and stress, expanding coping skills, building self-compassion, managing depression and anxiety, and better connecting with our selves and our communities. Together, we can create a custom plan that builds upon your unique strengths and empowers you in pursuing your chosen goals!
Helping Filipino/a/x, AAPI, and BIPOC parents heal from childhood trauma and find balance in parenthood.
I support Filipino/a/x, AAPI, and BIPOC adults as they navigate parenthood and heal from childhood trauma. Together, we’ll explore your past, recognize how it affects your present, and build skills for a grounded future. I draw from DBT, TF-CBT, and perinatal training to guide your healing with care and cultural understanding.
Helping Filipino/a/x, AAPI, and BIPOC parents heal from childhood trauma and find balance in parenthood.
I support Filipino/a/x, AAPI, and BIPOC adults as they navigate parenthood and heal from childhood trauma. Together, we’ll explore your past, recognize how it affects your present, and build skills for a grounded future. I draw from DBT, TF-CBT, and perinatal training to guide your healing with care and cultural understanding.
Reaching out for therapy can feel intimidating—especially when you’re not sure how to put what you’re feeling into words. You may be noticing increased anxiety, low mood, or emotional ups and downs that are affecting your relationships, school, or daily life. Maybe you’re looking for support that feels steady, patient, and collaborative as you sort through what’s been weighing on you. I work with children, adolescents, & adults who are navigating anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, emotional regulation challenges, & relationship difficulties.
Reaching out for therapy can feel intimidating—especially when you’re not sure how to put what you’re feeling into words. You may be noticing increased anxiety, low mood, or emotional ups and downs that are affecting your relationships, school, or daily life. Maybe you’re looking for support that feels steady, patient, and collaborative as you sort through what’s been weighing on you. I work with children, adolescents, & adults who are navigating anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, emotional regulation challenges, & relationship difficulties.
I focus my practice on supporting autistic young adults, professionals, and children navigating the complex transitions to independence. Often, these individuals have spent years "masking" to fit into a neurotypical world, leading to profound overwhelm and a sense of being deeply misunderstood. Whether finding footing in adulthood, seeking professional success, or building a child’s foundation, my clients share a common goal: to move beyond survival toward a life that celebrates their unique strengths. This work is designed for those seeking a meaningful, steady, and long-lasting path forward.
I focus my practice on supporting autistic young adults, professionals, and children navigating the complex transitions to independence. Often, these individuals have spent years "masking" to fit into a neurotypical world, leading to profound overwhelm and a sense of being deeply misunderstood. Whether finding footing in adulthood, seeking professional success, or building a child’s foundation, my clients share a common goal: to move beyond survival toward a life that celebrates their unique strengths. This work is designed for those seeking a meaningful, steady, and long-lasting path forward.
I support diverse clients, including Mandarin speakers and those connected to Chinese culture.
Are you looking for a safe, validating space to explore your strengths and build self-esteem? I can help with challenges like low self-worth, understanding how family dynamics impact your beliefs, and managing parenting stress that affects your relationships. Together, we'll work on finding your inner strength, enhancing self-awareness, and developing effective parenting strategies. My culturally sensitive approach is especially beneficial for those from diverse backgrounds. Connect with me to start your journey of self-discovery and growth. Let's achieve the personal and relational fulfillment you deserve.
I support diverse clients, including Mandarin speakers and those connected to Chinese culture.
Are you looking for a safe, validating space to explore your strengths and build self-esteem? I can help with challenges like low self-worth, understanding how family dynamics impact your beliefs, and managing parenting stress that affects your relationships. Together, we'll work on finding your inner strength, enhancing self-awareness, and developing effective parenting strategies. My culturally sensitive approach is especially beneficial for those from diverse backgrounds. Connect with me to start your journey of self-discovery and growth. Let's achieve the personal and relational fulfillment you deserve.
I speak English and Japanese.
I use different modalities such as Interpersonal Psychotherapy, TF-CBT, DBT to assist individual identifying presenting issues, improving symptoms, managing their daily life by utilizing coping skills.
I speak English and Japanese.
I use different modalities such as Interpersonal Psychotherapy, TF-CBT, DBT to assist individual identifying presenting issues, improving symptoms, managing their daily life by utilizing coping skills.
Therapy is a sanctuary where you can feel safe, heard, and cared for. Only when you feel safe can the hard work of healing begin. With my experiences as both a psychologist and an engineer, I bring a unique, systematic, and process-based orientation to therapy without sacrificing the compassionate, non-judgemental, and accepting environment we all need to grow. Together, we will develop a plan to organize the complex challenges you face, do the deep work to address what is holding you in place, and bring you closer to a more satisfying and meaningful life.
Therapy is a sanctuary where you can feel safe, heard, and cared for. Only when you feel safe can the hard work of healing begin. With my experiences as both a psychologist and an engineer, I bring a unique, systematic, and process-based orientation to therapy without sacrificing the compassionate, non-judgemental, and accepting environment we all need to grow. Together, we will develop a plan to organize the complex challenges you face, do the deep work to address what is holding you in place, and bring you closer to a more satisfying and meaningful life.
It feels like you’re living separate lives under the same roof. He’s glued to screens from morning until night, and you feel like you're always on the back burner, waiting for his attention. You've been there for him through work stress, therapy, and trauma, but when you need support, he struggles to show up. Resentment is building. You’re tired of feeling taken for granted, and you're starting to disengage because you don't want to chase him anymore. You’re here because you want to work through the years of baggage and feel connected again.
It feels like you’re living separate lives under the same roof. He’s glued to screens from morning until night, and you feel like you're always on the back burner, waiting for his attention. You've been there for him through work stress, therapy, and trauma, but when you need support, he struggles to show up. Resentment is building. You’re tired of feeling taken for granted, and you're starting to disengage because you don't want to chase him anymore. You’re here because you want to work through the years of baggage and feel connected again.
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FAQ - Asian Counselling
What can an Asian therapist help with?
An Asian therapist can help with the same concerns as any other therapist, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, stress, grief, and major life transitions. How an Asian therapist can make the experience feel different, however, is the possibility of shared cultural understanding. If you identify with a background such as Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Filipino, or Japanese, working with a therapist who shares or understands aspects of your culture may help you feel more comfortable opening up on such topics.
What role can language play in therapy?
Language can play an important role in therapy because people often express emotions, family dynamics, and personal experiences differently depending on the language they are speaking. For some individuals, working with a therapist who speaks their native language, whether it be Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, or another language, may help sessions feel more natural and emotionally connected. Even if you are fluent in English, certain thoughts or feelings may still feel easier to communicate in your native language.
How can an Asian therapist support couples counseling or family therapy?
Cultural background can play an important role in couples counseling and family therapy, particularly when family expectations, communication styles, generational differences, or cultural traditions are influencing the relationship. An Asian therapist may help partners and family members navigate these topics with more cultural understanding and less need to explain the context behind them. For multicultural or multilingual families, a Asian therapist who is bilingual may also help ensure that each person feels heard and understood during sessions.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience with Asian clients?
If cultural background is important to you in therapy, it can be helpful to ask prospective therapists whether they have experience working with clients who share your cultural background or speak your preferred language. In initial conversations with potential therapists, you might also ask whether they have worked with clients experiencing concerns related to identity, intergenerational conflict, family expectations, or cultural stigma around mental health.
Who is included in Psychology Today’s directory of Asian therapists?
The directory of Asian therapists includes professionals who have shared their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profiles, and they may not appear in search results for this reason; also, when the number of therapists identified as Asian is limited, the directory will also show therapists with comprehensive experience working with clients from relevant backgrounds.