Find Home Within Yourself Again

Therapy for breaking the cycles of intergenerational and relational trauma, especially among

Young Adults, Asian Americans, and Caregivers
Bay Area • California • Online
with Gina Li

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Does any of this sound familiar?

You try to make sure everyone and everything around you is taken care of and so you push yourself to no end. You find yourself feeling suffocated and stuck in an endless loop of striving towards one goal/milestone to another…and then another…feeling completely burnt out.

Stopping or slowing down don’t feel like options as it seems like you’ll let someone down, including letting yourself down.

It might have been easier to throw yourself into overworking…because maybe the only time you felt seen or heard was when you accomplished something or when you were serving others. And so, you stay stuck in this endless loop; you tell yourself you have to…after-all, there are and were so many people depending on you.

You make sense.

At the same time, I also know that there are ways out of this exhausting cycle. I’d welcome the opportunity to work with you through this.

Gina Li, LCSW, Therapist in Bay Area, California

Hi, my name is Gina Li (pronouns: she/her). I am an Asian-American, cisgender female mental health therapist based in the Bay Area, and founder of “Heart In Mind.” I specialize in supporting adults throughout all of California, with addressing the lingering and often, sneaky remnants of unresolved trauma.

I am especially passionate and well-versed in supporting Young Adults, Asian Americans, and/or Caregivers through the pains of intergenerational and relational trauma. Often, this can show up as poor self-esteem, identity crises, burn-out, and relationship stress.

“Heart In Mind” reflects a vision of psychotherapy that I am committed to practicing: therapy that supports you in being your fullest, truest self in the midst of very real social, environmental, and systemic pressures that might steer you further and further away from yourself. In short, my commitment to you is to help you keep your “heart in mind” in all aspects of your life.

I understand that this can be challenging, as there are compelling reasons to go with the flow, even if it means abandoning who you are.

Using approaches that pay respect to the mind-body connection and your unique life history, we’ll work together so that you can identify and invest in all parts of you, as well as the people and things that are important to you.

multiple generations of a family, representing adults who may benefit from online therapy for intergenerational trauma in the Bay Area, California

Honor your family’s past while also being present for your future.

a young child, having a nightmare, representing adults with unresolved relational trauma, that may benefit from online therapy for relational trauma, in the Bay Area, California

Tend to the concerns leftover from past relationships, while also helping you to build and maintaining healthier relationships now.

Feel more confident and joyful in whatever path in life you choose.

young Asian American female smiling in a field of sunflowers, representing an Asian American that may benefit from online therapy for Asian Americans, in the Bay Area, California

Be the most authentic version of yourself; a version of yourself that respects all facets of your identity.

mother washing broccoli with young daughter, representing caregivers that may benefit from online therapy for caregivers, in the Bay Area, California

Regain the energy and motivation necessary to take care of both your loved ones and yourself.

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