Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Practical, skills-based support for understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—and developing more helpful ways to respond.
About Luna
Clinical depth, cultural fluency, and genuine human connection.
I am a bilingual and bicultural Marriage and Family Therapist working in Mandarin and English. My role is to offer a steady, thoughtful relationship where all parts of your experience can be understood.
My story
From Jiangsu to California, a life shaped by more than one culture.
Understanding the experience of starting over.
I am an immigrant from China. I grew up in Jiangsu Province and came to the United States for college, studying Psychology and Education at UC Davis. That journey informs how I understand belonging, identity, and the adjustment to life in a new country.
I specialize in immigrant and cross-cultural family dynamics, including cultural stress, culture shock, and the process of settling into life in the U.S. Together, we can explore changing family roles, intergenerational expectations, and what it means to feel at home across cultures.
I have a particular focus on immigrants working in the tech industry, where adapting to a new culture can intersect with workplace expectations, pressure to achieve, and questions of identity and belonging. Therapy offers space to understand these pressures and find ways forward that fit your values.
The therapeutic relationship
You do not need to arrive with the right words. We begin with what is here.
People often come to therapy carrying concerns they have managed privately for a long time—sometimes for months, years, or even across different stages of life. Therapy can offer a space to slow down, make sense of what you have been carrying, and explore new ways of relating to yourself, your relationships, and the challenges in front of you.
I believe that every part of life—including moments of joy, uncertainty, loss, change, and difficulty—can hold the possibility for growth. My role is not to tell you who to be or what choices to make. Instead, I work collaboratively with you to better understand your experiences, recognize patterns that may no longer be serving you, and build choices that feel more grounded, meaningful, and aligned with who you are.
My approach is warm, collaborative, culturally responsive, and individualized. I draw from evidence-informed and relationship-centered approaches, tailoring therapy to each client’s needs, goals, strengths, developmental stage, and lived experience.
Therapeutic approaches
Care tailored to your needs, strengths, and lived experience.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Support for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and navigating intense emotions with greater stability.
Client-Centered Therapy
A compassionate, nonjudgmental approach that centers your voice, values, strengths, and capacity for growth.
Psychodynamic Therapy
An exploration of how early experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns may continue to shape emotions, relationships, and present-day choices.
Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Practices that help cultivate awareness, self-compassion, emotional presence, and a more grounded relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings.
Family Systems Therapy
An approach that considers the individual within the context of family, relationships, culture, and larger systems that influence wellbeing.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-informed support that prioritizes emotional safety, pacing, stabilization, empowerment, and healing from overwhelming or painful experiences.
Attachment-Focused Therapy
An approach that explores how early and current attachment experiences may shape trust, closeness, self-worth, emotional needs, and relationship patterns.
Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
A relationship-based approach for young children and caregivers that supports attachment, emotional regulation, and healing after stressful or traumatic experiences.
Experience
Six years of clinical experience.
My background spans hospital, community, and school-based settings, working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and across the lifespan, from children to older adults.
Children, parents, couples + families
Attachment, trauma, and connection
At One Life Counseling Center, my work has included attachment-focused, trauma-informed care for children and parents, integrating CPP, EFT, and DBT-informed approaches with cross-cultural family support. At Izzo Marriage & Family Therapy, I worked with couples and families on cross-cultural communication and attachment repair.
Community + school-based settings
Support across systems of care
My experience with the County of Santa Clara included adolescents and young adults, crisis support, and school and community integration. At Gardner Health Services, I provided outpatient support for youth and families with complex needs, coordinating care with schools and healthcare teams. My training also included StarVista.
Neurodiversity + the lifespan
From childhood through older adulthood
As an autism trainer at Morgan Autism Center, I worked with neurodiverse children and adults ages 4–78, supporting communication, social engagement, sensory regulation, and individualized learning alongside an interdisciplinary team.
Hospital setting + research
Early experience in Shanghai
My hospital background includes psychology and education research at Tianyou Hospital affiliated with Tongji University, supporting literature review, data analysis, and research design, as well as experience at Shanghai Mental Health Center.
Education
Santa Clara University
M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy.
Education
University of California, Davis
B.A. double major in Psychology and Education.
Clinical training
Mindfulness and evidence-based care
Training through Stanford Medicine and Child-Parent Psychotherapy through UCSF.
Begin thoughtfully