Inclusive, Empowering Therapy for LGBTQ+ Adults and Adult Children of Immigrants in Oakland & Online in California
Depth-oriented therapy for adults who learned to survive by staying in control & want to learn to let go
What My Practice Is About
Your usual patterns of staying in control, striving for perfection, and managing everyone and everything aren’t cutting it. You’re overwhelmed with anxiety that won’t let up. Your relationships are suffering for it. Your authentic self—the you that feels most alive, intuitive, and connected—is trapped under the weight of trying to do it all and keep it together.
The idea of letting go can feel terrifying. We may question our identity, purpose, and self-worth.
In my queer-affirming, culturally inclusive, liberation-oriented practice, we dare to ask:
Who am I if I don’t hold it all together?
Who am I if I let myself be imperfect?
Who am if I let go of control?
This practice is for high-achieving, people-pleasing, and over-functioning LGBTQ+, trans, genderfluid & nonbinary, and/or children of immigrants who want to move from feeling restricted to becoming more embodied.
Together, we gently surrender old patterns that suffocate instead of liberate, and embrace who you get to become when you feel more free.
Hi, I’m Luca (they/he). I’m a queer, trans, mixed race Asian American therapist in Oakland.
Through a deep personal connection to this work, I specialize in supporting LGBTQ+ adults and second-generation immigrants who want to find their way back to the authentic connection with themselves.
As an integrative therapist, I use mind-body approaches that allow you to feel safe enough to let go of the fear and control that rule your life. You’ll learn to liberate yourself from self-abandonment and trust your inherent intuition for guidance, leading to greater balance, self-leadership, and self-acceptance.
Whether we’re meeting in person in Oakland or connecting through online therapy across the SF Bay Area & California, you can expect an intentional, grounded space where you’re invited to return, over and over again, back to yourself.
Moment by moment, I’ll help you release the patterns that no longer support your purpose, and surrender to the process of cultivating the freer, embodied and intuitive life that feels more like you.
I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ adults, trans, non-binary, genderfluid, and questioning adults, and adult children of immigrants. My clients are high-achievers, people-pleasers, and perfectionists who learned to survive by being of service and performing excellence.
When clients reach out to me, they’re seeking relief from the unrelenting anxiety and relationship strain that has built up from years of trying to take care of everything and everyone. They want to find out who they are when they release other people’s expectations and just be.
In my Lake Merritt office in Oakland and online throughout the East Bay and California, I enjoy working with people who are self-reflective and curious about themselves. They’re done with feeling limited by coping strategies that create more chaos than calm, and feel courageous to explore what’s going on beneath the surface, even when the answers aren’t clear and the path to change feels scary.
What You Can Expect In My Relational, Liberation-Focused Practice in Oakland and Online in California:
Openness to being two full humans together
Listening with presence
Grounded energy
Giggles, chuckles, and full belly laughs
Lots of expressive gestures!
An intuitive sense of your pace
A whole-hearted commitment to your healing
A gift for understanding your suffering in context, including the wisdom in how you learned to survive
Celebration of your courage
A challenge when you need help seeing the way
A soft place to land when you’re right where you need to be
If you feel restricted by the anxiety and relationship stress that comes from denying your true self and taking care of others at the expense of yourself, then this work is for you.
With individual therapy in Oakland and online in California, I offer a space a space that is just for you: one where you don’t need to bend, caretake, or make yourself small in order to feel seen and cared for. I honor the wisdom in how you learned to survive and offer you a sense of choice. We can continue with the status quo, where we over-correct and push past the pain. Or we can slowly, gradually, and with care, try something different. Something more embodied, closer to your inner truth, closer to you.
When you’re ready, I’ll be with you along the way, helping you heal the wounds that keep you disconnected from yourself and guiding you into the freedom to fully experience life from the inside out.
“And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
Clarice Lispector