About Me

—I’m a Taiwanese American woman who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that has grown into her full calling as a 巫 (Wu) Shaman.

As a Taiwanese American, I have grown up walking in between the edges of the Eastern vs. Western world and the Chinese vs. Taiwanese identity. This liminal space often led me to feel invisible and unseen, yet I was constantly subjected to the rules and survival norms of cultures that would validate and invalidate me at the exact same time.

Yet, it was precisely this liminal experience that built my foundation as a psychotherapist. When your entire upbringing requires you to stay centered in the absolute midst of contradiction and chaos, you are well set up to be a good therapist.

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As a therapist, I’ve spent thousands of hours in sessions working with the shadows of my clients and guiding them toward sovereignty. My clients have largely been BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), Children of Immigrants, and Multiracial individuals who carry deep cultural, intergenerational, and somatic trauma—what is better encapsulated into the term "ancestral trauma." To effectively help them heal, I gained mastery in tracking how the nervous system interacts with the personal narratives of people whose entire ancestral lines have been majorly impacted by racism, colonialism, and patriarchy. The whole picture of emotional wellness cannot be achieved without examining how the body interacts with the micro and macro environment. This complex treatment assessment is often ignored in our White-centric therapy world, but I strive to understand everybody’s unique trauma story because I believe there is no other way to begin healing without first understanding.

Six years into my clinical career, I felt pulled to incorporate astrology, tarot, and oracle cards into my sessions. What started as fun spiritual hobbies proved to be incredibly valuable treatment tools because they allow both the client and myself to see the big picture. They act as direct messages from Source or the Field, guiding us to our highest paths. Suddenly, spiritual growth became inextricable from mental health healing.

And yet, I still felt a deep dissonance. I was proud of my work, but an old contradiction kept ringing out. Once again, I was caught walking in the liminal space between two worlds. I was a Taiwanese person becoming an expert in Western healing modalities. Why? Did I not like my own culture’s tools? Hell, did my culture even have any sufficient emotional healing tools to offer? If I embraced Western modalities, was I turning my back on my heritage or implying it wasn't good enough? I had been walking in between worlds and living a contradiction all my life, so that didn’t alarm me. What alarmed me was that it felt that I was becoming very good at skills that seemed decidedly not Chinese.

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In 2025, I received a definitive message from the Universe. I clicked on a YouTube video by Benebell Wen titled Shamanism Meets Taoism: The Hidden Link in 3,000 Years of Magic and Mysticism. I remember putting it on thinking I could just relax and let my mind wander, assuming it had nothing to do with me. I was so wrong. Everything Benebell talked about pinged my brain with a clear message: “This is you. You are a 巫 (Wu) Shaman.”

By this point in my journey, I was used to getting spiritual downloads. But this time, the message clearly stated that I had an identity, and that identity came with a role and responsibility. I grappled with this revelation hard. I grew up in an over-achieving Asian American community where every single decision was made for its ability to help me survive and succeed in America. Proclaiming that I was a 巫 (Wu) Shaman was simply "not it."

I was not embarrassed to be an astrologer or a tarot reader. I wasn’t even disturbed by getting messages from spiritual entities anymore! But this realization about my 巫 (Wu) Shaman identity was difficult to reconcile because it meant proclaiming to the Asian and Chinese world that I am a spiritual professional. To do that is to loudly declare that our culture possesses a deep spirituality that has been intentionally hidden from the mainstream.

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Over the next year, I began to realize why this topic was so uncomfortable. If a practice is hidden or lost, there is often a reason for it. These reasons are rarely innocuous, often malicious. For one such as the Chinese empire to thrive, it could not do so with the Shaman sitting in sovereignty, because the Shaman holds respect for all life. The Shaman will not condone the destruction of another people's lineage just because a ruling class wants more land or slaves. The Shaman will not condone the destruction of nature’s cycles just to turn a profit or to overwork a woman. Because the Chinese empire endeavored to do all these things, the Shaman had to go.

 When spiritual practitioners in any culture are persecuted, this is a loss for the people. It is a loss for natural healing, for spiritual connection, and embodied empowerment in this world. The Shaman is the steward who cultivates the relationship and balance with the Heavens and Earth, and that relationship does not include slavery, misogyny, or oppression.

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Sitting on all this information, of what I knew and of what has hidden from people, I found it necessary that people understand the true history of what has been going on with shamans, with spirituality, with oppressive forces, and really, with who is holding the strings of all our individual lives. By erasing the shaman, empires have successfully siphoned off the energy and labor of our people for millennia.

 By taking up the mantle as a 巫 (Wu) Shaman, I am choosing to put our ancestral medicine back into the mainstream conversation- So that the people can learn and remember the essential connection between heaven, humans, and earth; so they can see their personal prosperity as in line with the healing of the wider world; and so they hold the knowledge that should be their birthright to know but were robbed of accessing.

For the astrology buffs out there, it’s curious to note that this shamanic calling of mine occurred right after my first Saturn return came to a close. I am now an adult, in astrological terms. Everything I had every gone through in my life finally made sense to me in terms of the preparation for me to become a 巫 (Wu) Shaman. Spirituality is not just a Western concept. I am not walking in between two worlds. I am remembering, reclaiming, and sharing our Chinese spirituality to do my part in supporting the wholeness and healing of our world.