Online therapy · California, Colorado & Florida
AAPI Therapy
Your story includes
more than one culture.
You may feel pulled between what matters to your family and what feels right for you. You can value connection, loyalty, and care while also wanting room for your own needs.
Therapy offers space to explore those tensions with curiosity and respect for the life you’ve lived.
Book a free consultation15 minutes · by phone · no pressure
Room for your story, in your own words
Family, identity & belonging
When your needs
feel complicated.
There is no single Asian American or Pacific Islander experience. Your background, relationships, generation, and communities all shape your story. We’ll start with what is true for you.
- Worrying about disappointing family or feeling responsible for their feelings.
- Feeling pressure around achievement, career, marriage, or parenthood.
- Struggling to express needs or set limits without guilt.
- Navigating different expectations across generations or cultures.
- Feeling disconnected from parts of your identity, or unsure where you belong.
- Wanting support with anxiety, burnout, or relationships in a space that welcomes cultural context.
Connection & boundaries
You can care about your family
and listen to yourself.
You may want closeness and feel overwhelmed by what is expected of you. You might understand where your family is coming from while still feeling hurt, angry, or exhausted.
We can explore what connection means to you, which values you want to carry forward, and where different boundaries would help. You get to define the relationships you want to build.
Life between cultures
Room for all the parts
of who you are.
Questions of belonging can shift across your life: in a relationship, at work, after becoming a parent, or when caring for older family members. Parts of your identity that once felt settled may feel more complicated.
We can talk about language, migration, racism, family roles, community, and experiences of being seen—or overlooked. You can decide which parts of your cultural experience feel central to our work.
Our work together
Finding your voice,
at your own pace.
Our work can hold both what you value about your background and what has been painful. We’ll explore the changes you want without assuming independence, closeness, or healing must look one particular way.
- Understanding family patterns and the roles you’ve learned to take on.
- Working through guilt, anxiety, perfectionism, and self-criticism.
- Communicating needs and navigating difficult conversations.
- Exploring bicultural identity and your own sense of belonging.
- Making decisions that reflect your values and circumstances.
- Building a relationship with yourself that includes care as well as responsibility.
Susan Hea Jin Ko, LMFT
A shared context.
Curiosity about your experience.
I’m a Korean American therapist and a 1.5-generation immigrant. My perspective informs how I think about cultural identity, family expectations, and the experience of moving between different worlds.
Shared context can be meaningful, and our experiences may still be different. I’ll listen closely, ask questions, and leave room for you to define what matters.
Online therapy for adults in California, Colorado, and Florida.
There’s room for you here
There’s room for your needs.
And room for your story.
A free 15-minute phone consultation is a chance to ask questions, share what you’re looking for, and see whether working together feels comfortable.
Book a free consultation15 minutes · by phone · no pressure
Prefer email? susan@growandgracetherapy.net
For scheduling questions, please keep emails brief and avoid sensitive clinical details.
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