Dr. Chu-Takyi Psychotherapy

Through exploring and deepening your understanding of your past and present, you can give yourself the permission to heal patterns, some of which may span generations, and move towards a life that most thoroughly honors your strengths and values. My role is to understand your complexity and to help you honor it – to be curious about it. I believe this is only possible with the commitment to forming meaningful relationships. My goal is to ask questions that open space and lead to new insights and understanding, along with helping you build new patterns that more deeply honor the life you seek. Together we collaborate to recognize and release the most wounded parts of you and to make room for the most resilient parts of yourself, within a compassionate, creative, and encouraging space. I received my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. My experience has been grounded in both inpatient and outpatient settings focused on past and ongoing trauma, life transitions, addiction, identity development, complex mental diagnoses, racial trauma, and coping with societal injustices. I’ve practiced psychotherapy within a county jail, a community mental health and addiction clinic, a psychiatric crisis hospital, a forensic diversion program, San Quentin’s psychodynamic therapy program, and now, within private community practice. I work from an integrative perspective that incorporates a range of modalities including psychodynamic, existential, narrative, neuroscientific, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and somatic therapies, all informed by trauma recovery processes and multicultural complexity. I celebrate and honor diverse ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds, and welcome clients of all gender identities and sexual orientations. I love the work of building a warm space for self-exploration for those who are bravely seeking to understand painful parts of themselves and working towards shaping a meaningful life. I invite you to join me in exploring the parts of you that have previously felt frightening or marginalized by either yourself or by others. As Angela Davis states, “radical simply means grasping things at the root.” If you let it be, therapy can be this radical act. Through our shared curiosity, we can look for and grasp the roots of current unhelpful patterns and sources of pain. Through this, you may find yourself unearthing your inner resources of insight, wholeness, resilience, and joy.