I see healing attachment patterns and relationships as both science and art. Growing up as a first-generation refugee from Vietnam, I was the golden child slated to become a research scientist. Instead, after graduating from Harvard with a degree in biochemistry, I went to culinary school at a local community college. As life is not a linear path, I went on to study nutrition and dietetics, completing my training at a top internship with the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Diego, and then worked as an outpatient dietitian for Kaiser Permanente.

Where I am now is diametrically opposed to where I was expected to be by family and culture, so I'm a bit of a rebel. While I have grown up planted in science and evidence, I am embracing my intuitive creativity and spirituality as I blossom. I enjoy Ideal Parent Figure (IPF) work as a co-creative and collaborative process as it was designed to be. I see it also as a spiritual work that heals us both individually and inter-generationally.