Hi, I’m Sunny.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with parents, young children, and families through the beautiful, messy, and sometimes really hard parts of growing together.
I’m especially interested in what’s happening underneath the anxiety, meltdowns, disconnection, guilt, or those moments when you find yourself thinking, Why am I reacting like this?
Sometimes the work is about understanding your child. Sometimes it’s about understanding yourself. Usually, it’s both.
As a mom of three, I know firsthand that parenting can bring out our deepest love—and parts of ourselves we weren’t expecting to meet again. My own difficult pregnancies and postpartum experiences shaped the way I support parents: with compassion, curiosity, practical help, and plenty of room for humor.
And yes, I’ve read an unreasonable number of parenting books on your behalf. Because who has time when you’re raising actual children?
I May Be a Good Fit If…
You love your child deeply, but parenting feels harder than you thought it would.
Your child’s big feelings, anxiety, sensitivity, or behaviors are leaving you wondering, What am I supposed to do with this?
You’re worried about your baby or young child’s development, behavior, relationships, or ability to regulate.
You keep trying different parenting strategies, but nothing seems to stick—or you’re tired of wondering whether you’re doing it “right.”
Parenthood has brought up anxiety, grief, anger, guilt, or parts of your own childhood you weren’t expecting.
Pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, loss, or birth trauma has changed you in ways you’re still trying to understand.
You notice yourself repeating patterns from your own family and want to do something differently.
You’re overwhelmed, disconnected, or simply tired of carrying so much by yourself.
Or maybe nothing is terribly “wrong.” You just know something could feel better.
How I Think About Therapy
I don’t believe children need to be “fixed.”
Behavior tells us something.
Instead of only asking, “How do we stop this behavior?” I want us to wonder, “What might this behavior be telling us?”
You know your child best. I bring expertise in development, mental health, trauma, attachment, and relationships. We put those things together.
When I work with children, parents are an important part of the process because children grow and heal within relationships. Sometimes helping your child means learning new ways to respond to them. And sometimes it means noticing what happens inside you when your child is struggling.
That part matters too.
My Approach
My approach is relational, reflective, trauma-informed, and grounded in what we know about child development and the brain.
Therapy with me may include talking, play, humor, curiosity, Brainspotting, practical parenting tools, psychoeducation, or slowing things down enough to notice patterns that are hard to see when you’re just trying to survive the day.
I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all therapy. We’ll figure out together what is actually helpful for you, your child, and your family.
Pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, loss, and birth trauma
Anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions
Parenting young children
Infant and early childhood mental health
Child behavior and emotional regulation
Highly sensitive children
Neurodevelopmental differences
Intergenerational and relational trauma
Grief and loss
Foster care and DCFS involvement
Parent-child relationship difficulties
Consultation and training for early childhood programs
My Clinical Focus.
Experience & The Person Behind the Therapist
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #106062), an Endorsed Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health provider (PMH-C).
I earned my MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary and completed advanced training through the Napa Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship at UC Davis.
My training also includes Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Brainspotting I & II, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Restoration Therapy, and the Gottman Method.
In other words: I’m a bit of a nerd about infant & early childhood mental health, relationships, developing brains, trauma, and what helps people heal.
I’m a Korean American immigrant, wife, mom of three girls, daughter, sister, friend, and Christian.
My own story has made me especially aware of the ways culture, family expectations, immigration, identity, and intergenerational experiences shape us. I want there to be room for those parts of your story here too.
If faith or spirituality is important to you, we can integrate it into our work. If it isn’t, you don’t need to share my beliefs to feel welcome here.
Outside of work, I love traveling, binge-watching K-dramas, and waiting patiently for someone to invent laundry that folds itself.
And one random fact: I once won an award for “Disposition That Best Matches Her Name.”
What I Hope for Our Work
I hope therapy can be a place where we slow things down enough to really see what’s happening—not just the behavior, anxiety, conflict, or overwhelm on the surface.
To understand your child more deeply.
To understand yourself with a little more compassion.
To notice old patterns and make room for something different.
And maybe even rediscover some of the wonder that gets lost when life becomes mostly about getting through the day.
We can wonder together about what you and your family need in this season.
Help is available.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at1-800-273-TALK (8255) for immediate support.
“What is shareable is bearable.” Dr. Dan Siegel
