My approach to psychotherapy

As a therapist, I primarily draw upon psychodynamic psychotherapy to guide my practice. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a relational approach for clients with chronic, pervasive, and maladaptive ways of relating to self and others. As a dynamic- and multicultural-oriented therapist, I pay close attention to the role of interpersonal relationships in people’s lives, the intersecting identifies and the socio-cultural-political context, and the presence of feelings and emotions in the here-and-now. I appreciate the relational and multicultural perspective of psychotherapy because it not only recognizes the patient, the therapist, the place, and the interaction of all, but also offers me a therapeutic way to address transference and countertransference. In doing so, it allows me to provide new emotional corrective experience and new understandings for my patients.

作為一名心理治療師，我格外關注「關係」這件事情，包括人與人之間的關係，以及人與自己的關係。我認為一些看似不合時宜的行為模式，其實在過去的某個時刻是必要的生存技能；因此，如果想要改變這些不適用的行為模式，就必須先瞭解它們的緣起以及功能。同時，我也很看重多元文化的議題，個案對自己的身份認同、當時的社會-文化-政治氛圍、以及個案此時此刻的情緒與感受。種種原因讓我喜歡從關係和多元文化為出發點理解一個人，這個視角不僅關注個案、心理治療師、地點、和三者之間的互動，更賦予心理治療師一個能將移情和反移情的現象融入治療過程的方法。一個美好的結果，便是能在心理治療的過程中，為個案帶來：新的情緒體驗和新的理解。