I work at the intersection of clinical psychology, identity development, and organizational performance.

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, psychodynamic clinician, and founder of

TheXponential

— a practice built around one central observation: the structures people build to succeed often become the structures keeping them stuck.

My work — in therapy, in consulting, and on stage — focuses on the same question:

Who are you when you stop performing?

Not as a philosophical exercise. As a practical one.

I trained at Princeton University and the University of Chicago.

I’ve lived and worked across 45+ countries.

I came to the U.S. from China at nine years old. My understanding of identity, belonging, and the cost of adaptation comes from having navigated all of those crossings — and from a decade of clinical work with people who are navigating their own.

Blog

Insights from my Blog Archives.

On Self Doubt

The internal voice that questions whether you're capable enough, prepared enough, or worthy enough tends to show up most reliably when the stakes are real. That's not a coincidence. Here's what self-doubt is actually signaling, and why silencing it isn't the goal.

Do you care about what others think of you?

he question isn't whether other people's opinions matter — of course they do to some degree. The more useful question is whether you've quietly handed the steering wheel to an audience that isn't living your life. Here's where that line tends to fall.