Cheri Hui-Meng Tsai - Licensed Therapist

How it all works?

Psychotherapy is a method of treatment that offers a way of understanding ourselves, our relationships, and how we conduct ourselves in the world. Therapy helps people learn how they became who they are and why they do and feel the things they do. This understanding paves the way towards the emotional freedom necessary to make substantive, lasting changes.


Therapy is based on the observation that people are often unaware of the many underlying factors that influence their current emotions and behavior. Unconscious conflicts can create disharmony, unhappiness and inhibition that can often be observed through difficulties in work, relationships and characteristic ways of being in the world.


The value of treatment lies in the long-term, consistent relationship with someone – the psychotherapist – who works to understand us, accept us for who we are, and who helps us with our struggles.


Services

Therapy is most useful for helping us get out those things that are out of our awareness. For example, sometimes when people get out of a relationship and they will say I’m never gonna date that kind of person again and they mean it 100%! Then they get into the next relationship and in a few months, they're like, oh my gosh! This person's like that too! Or people make vows like I'm not gonna do xyz anymore, and then they find themselves doing it again. This is something that we all do and it suggests that there are some things that are operating a little out of our awareness that exert an influence and that's the kind of thing that I'm interested in getting at. If you find yourself repeating the same patterns, I can help you uncover why you are stuck.

Who I Work With

- Working professionals needing short-term and long-term therapy
- Issues related to workplace 
- Issues from childhood, family
- Current social and familial relationships
- Bicultural, Multiracial or people of mixed race
- LGBTQIA and non-binary gender populations
- 1st and 2nd generation immigrants and Asian Americans
You do not have to be ready for therapy. My focus is on meeting you in your process, understanding ambivalence as part of change. To begin the journey, you have to start somewhere. You are not alone and ultimately, with self-discipline and support, you will start to feel relief.

THERAPY FOR ASIAN PROFESSIONALS

​Those seeking more immediate relief for work-related, personal development and relationship issues, I specialize in talk therapy such as psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

THERAPY FOR TRAUMA

​Intergenerational trauma and collective stressors can be in-born and live in our body. Therapy is a method of treatment that offers a way of understanding ourselves, our relationships, and how we conduct ourselves in the world. Therapy helps people learn how they became who they are and why they do and feel the things they do. This understanding paves the way towards the emotional capacity necessary to make connections to our collective suffering and formally feel the grief and honor the pain of our ancestors.  I specialize in long-term therapy such as psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

THERAPY FOR POC

Having a POC (people of color) therapist can help anyone belonging to any level of marginalization to feel safe, promoting the space to to feel understood. It is this growing awareness of your mind that gradually opens the possibility for change, which can lead to increased self-compassion and a greater sense of agency in one’s own life and have successful ways of coping. It is possible to experience deep emotional connections with others and meaning in life.

FEES 

Individual sessions are 50 minutes and the fee is $250.
I offer some flexibility in fees for individuals with 2 or more sessions per week.
I accept Medicare.

Free - Initial 15 Minute Phone Consultation
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