Nurturing your authentic self in a demanding world.

Therapy for Asian American Women

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We’re ambitious and high-achieving. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves and take on a lot of responsibility. We were raised to work hard and to be achievement-oriented. We did well in school and we’re in the thick of our careers. Despite our successes on paper, life is not quite how we thought it would be. Life is stressful, dissatisfying, tedious, frustrating, unfair. We turn to food, TV, and shopping to find fulfillment. We stay busy. We work a lot, maybe too much at times. But day after day, nothing actually changes.

For many high-functioning Asian American women, there comes a time when we take a step back and think, “This is it?” We worked so hard to get here, only to discover that it’s a grind until we retire. It feels a bit anti-climactic, doesn’t it? The truth is, many of us are not where we want to be in our personal lives. While we were busy focusing on success and getting to the next thing, here’s what we didn’t learn:

The skills and perspectives needed to be happy
How to manage stress and anxiety
How to create and maintain healthy relationships
That being “nice” and people pleasing can diminish us

Why didn’t we learn these things? Many of us did not learn or have modeled for us within our immigrant families the things we now find most challenging, perhaps because of intergenerational differences in values and expectations. Or perhaps our families of origin were in survival mode or dysfunctional.

This is where I come in.

This is the developmental work I do with Asian American women in their 30s and older:

Emotional intimacy with friends and partners
Self-acceptance (yes, I’m calling out your dieting)
Nurturing and expressing your authentic identity
Accessing states of flow, deep relaxation, ease
Acknowledging and processing childhood trauma
Career pivoting
Career acceptance

It’s time for a new chapter **in your life, when you focus on developing your whole self.**

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Hi, I’m Chu Hui, aka Dr. Cha. I’m an Asian American psychologist.

I specialize in Asian American women in their 30s and at mid-life.

I’m a 1.5 generation Korean American woman. I left a good job with a fantastic salary and pension to, well, do this. This was not on my roadmap for being a financially secure and successful adult child of immigrants. But when I turned 40, I realized I needed to do the work that was really calling to me and live the life I always dreamed of. I don’t believe everyone has to radically pivot the way I did but my experience transformed my purpose. My purpose now is to serve my community by validating and normalizing our unique cultural experiences and by helping people honor their whole selves.

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