Shuang Feng, MHC-LP
Associate Psychotherapist | She/Her/Hers
There are times in life when it feels as though you’ve been surviving for so long that you’ve lost touch with yourself. Perhaps you’ve become accustomed to putting your own needs aside, adapting to new environments, or carrying difficult emotions without fully understanding them. Therapy offers a space to gently reconnect with the parts of yourself that deserve to be seen, understood, and cared for.
Hi, I’m Shuang. I support individuals navigating grief, anxiety, depression, immigration experiences, life transitions, and questions of identity and belonging. Together, we’ll explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped you, making room for your struggles, strengths, and longings to be met with curiosity and compassion. Therapy with me is not about becoming someone new, but about finding your way back to yourself.
*Shuang is currently accepting new clients and clinically supervised by Samah Nanda, LMHC-D.
How I Understand the Work
I believe healing becomes possible when we have enough safety and support to understand ourselves more deeply and experiment with new ways of relating. My approach is psychodynamic and attachment-based, which means we may explore how earlier relationships continue to influence your emotional world, your sense of self, and the connections you form today.
I also understand that our inner lives do not exist separately from our families, cultural roots, communities, and the systems around us. Together, we can consider both your personal history and the broader forces that have shaped how you experience belonging, relationships, and identity.
What Therapy With Me Feels Like
My style is reflective, collaborative, trauma-informed, and grounded in cultural humility. I hope our work feels like a place where you can slow down, listen more closely to yourself, and bring forward experiences that may have been difficult to express or fully understand.
Because not every experience can be reached through words alone, I also welcome somatic awareness, movement, art, and other creative forms of expression into therapy. We can discover together what helps you feel more connected to yourself and supports meaningful change over time.
Areas I Often Support
Trauma Recovery | Life Transitions | Boundaries
Depression | Cultural Identity | Academic Pressures
Immigration Experiences | Self-Discovery
Languages
I also provide therapy in Mandarin & Cantonese for clients who prefer it.
A little about me
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My path to becoming a therapist really started with my own education. Growing up, I moved between very different systems: Chinese public and private schools, an American high school, a joint mainland-Hong Kong college, and graduate school back in the States. For a long time I was shy, stressed, and confused. What changed things was being somewhere I finally felt respected and genuinely cared for. That experience showed me how much mental health matters, and how being cared about can shift the course of someone's life. That's when I knew that providing that kind of care would be my life's work.
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Learning from my clients' stories. Each session feels like meeting a new part of them, and every story is so unique that I find them genuinely inspiring. I love noticing the small shifts and changes people are working toward in their lives. There's real power in an authentic connection, and I'm often moved by these moments in session.
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I recently closed out twenty years of being a student, so I've been taking time to reflect, reset, and sit with what that ending means. The process looks like the slow stretches and deep breaths in the park, spending unhurried time with friends and family, dancing, and making a really good matcha at home.
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I'm a homebody at heart. I love decorating and organizing my apartment, which has become an important healing space for me. Long, deep conversations with family and friends are another favorite — a way for me to reflect, connect, and keep learning. I'm also drawn to arts and crafts, both making them and simply taking them in. Sometimes a piece of art speaks straight to my heart in a way words can't quite reach, which is a big part of why art and dance therapy resonate with me too.
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M.A. in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness, New York University
B.S. in Applied Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
University and Professional Studies Exchange Program, University of California, San Diego
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”