Psychotherapy for being authentically you.
Culturally attuned therapy for deeply feeling, creative people. Welcoming all, with a special focus on Asian American mental health. Live freely, live fully.
Based in San Francisco, CA, offering teletherapy to residents of California and Oregon.
Hi, I’m Shianling! Welcome.
I’m a licensed clinical psychologist in California and Oregon. I am committed to helping you connect with yourself and others. You are not alone.
It is my purpose to support you in clarifying your own wants and needs, so you can envision and start living a life that is worthwhile, meaningful, and fulfilling. None of us heal alone - you need yourself, your loved ones, and your community by your side, in ways that fit for you. I will help you be flexible, to show up the way you want even in the face of painful situations, thoughts, and feelings. We will approach change with your values, culture, feminism, and social justice as guides.
Let me help you through:
Anxiety, Stress & Burnout
You’re spiraling with intense thoughts, worries, and self-doubt, with unbearable restless energy coursing through your body and maybe even bodily symptoms like racing heartbeat and GI distress. Not only this, but it is feeling impossible to do what you need to do. I can help you break things down into more manageable pieces, while loosening the grip of those dire thoughts and feelings.
Fertility, Pregnancy & Postpartum
It can be a tough and painful road, becoming a parent. You may be having a really hard time getting pregnant. Throw treatment such as IVF in the mix, and you also have a hormonal rollercoaster on top of the intense emotional pain of fertility struggles. If you are pregnant, pregnancy and postpartum come with huge body changes, hormone flux, figuring out how to parent, identity as a parent, wrestling with family and society’s expectations... Not to mention potential depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and other perinatal distress. I can help you through this time, define what’s important to you, and show up as a mother or birthing parent the way you want.
Depression
You feel down, numb, increasingly disconnected from yourself, your loved ones, and your life. It’s hard to care about anything, and at the same time you despair about being not enough. It can seem like you’re in a deepening hole, where it’s hard to imagine living meaningfully. Let’s get movement happening in an approachable way, while rooting in your values and making a life worth living.
Identity & Life Changes
Who am I? You have a sense of flailing and turmoil, caught between cultures, roles, jobs. You’re trying to figure out what you want, what you need, your thoughts and feelings, and changes life throws you. Maybe you have never felt in touch with who you are outside of the color of your skin, how you appear, what you do, how others see you, how you perform. We can find and get to know your self, the one who observes, holds the wisdom, and chooses what is important. The one we want you to trust in leading you through life in a fulfilling and meaningful way. Your Self.
Try a free 20 minute consultation to see whether you’d like to work together.
I’m looking forward to meeting you.
“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender. ”
—Rumi