Therapy for Asian Americans
To my AAPI clients and community, know that I am grieving alongside you. It's hard to put into words the amount of violence that we've witnessed this past year. The collective grief has impacted us in ways we may not know how to express. To process an event, one has to digest the information and [...]
It is not new information that Asian Americans access fewer mental health services in comparison to the rest of the population (4). I have spent the past 5 years in my work trying to understand the patterns and trends behind the gap in treatment. I have worked with immigrants from Southeast Asia and their American [...]
Being bicultural for a young person means one must learn to navigate two different cultures/practices/beliefs and somehow combine them to formulate a unique identity. Identity formation for someone who is bicultural can be difficult due to the differences in values and ideas of these two cultures. For example, someone with immigrant parents may have been [...]
Thien Pham, LMFT 