Welcome!
Looking to feel lighter and more centered?
- Feeling stuck in an unhealthy pattern?
- Want to heal from anxiety or unmanageable emotions?
- Constantly worried and unable to relax?
- Experiencing significant grief that seems to be never ending?
- Tendency to please people that interferes with your own needs?
- Want to navigate challenging relationship(s) from a more centered you?
- Want to learn to trust and reconnect with your true self, to grow your confidence?
- Heal from trauma (little “t” or big “T”) or intergenerational trauma?
- Want to live a more authentic, fulfilled life, and reconnect with your sense of joy?
It takes tremendous courage to seek help and to stay on a healing journey (because let’s face it: Life is often not an easy road). I feel such privilege to be able to walk alongside my clients, to facilitate and have witnessed much healing and transformation of many clients over the years.
I have decades of experience providing individual therapy for adults from diverse backgrounds and professions who struggle with a variety of issues.
Treatment Specializations
Anxiety
Struggling with overwhelming emotions
Relationship struggles
Asian American mental health
Adults with relational or childhood wounding
Self-confidence issues
Burnout
Grief
Facilitating your connection with yourself!
Are you in alignment with your spirit, your values, your centeredness?
I will share my breadth of knowledge and skills to increase your recognition of emotional triggers, for you to shift unhealthy patterns and/or relational challenges, for you to learn to stand more confident and in alignment with your inner wisdom.
Contact Dr. Lin to set up a free initial consult
Somatic, Holistic Psychologist in San José
As a mind-body-emotion-spirit, trauma-informed licensed psychologist, I am intentional to integrate Eastern and Western practices. I optimize my extensive experience and on-going learning to address deeper roots of your struggles, all from multicultural, feminist, and systems lens.
I have found that incorporating more depth work processes to be integral. I do not believe in simply alleviating symptoms (though that is important); we will work to uncover the depths of your struggles (we may or may not talk about the actual traumatic events) and any possible unconscious patterns and barriers to healing. It is not unusual that as we resolve one issue, another deeper layer of issues emerge; some have used the metaphor of an onion–as we peel one layer away, deeper wounding or rot may reveal itself.
I may also integrate goal-directed coaching techniques as needed to address your behavioral health. Some examples of practices I integrate include:
- Relational depths and dynamics and interpersonal skills in culturally-informed contexts
- Somatic techniques to decrease your fight-flight-freeze, stress/trauma responses
- Mindfulness, mind-body awareness and practices
- Cognitive behavioral and cognitive reconsolidation practices
- Emotion-focused and Internal Family Systems
- Brainspotting
- Guided visualization/imagery work, including inner-child work
- Attunement to your inner wisdom, your sense of self/values/being/spirit
- If interested, I may integrate spiritually-informed work (e.g., intuitive hits, energy work such as remote reiki)
I will work with you to tailor approaches that would be most beneficial for your unique experiences and struggles. You can expect to be supportively and directly challenged in the sessions, to start to recognize possible relational patterns and walk away with applicable tools fairly quickly in our work. I am also practically-oriented, and we will collaboratively identify area(s) for you to practice more effective and healthier skills in between our sessions.
Some testimonials from my “Attend to Our Being” (Boundary-Setting for Asian American women) workshop given in 2022
“Dr. Lin’s webinar was phenomenal and one of the best talks I have ever attended on Asian-American identity and experience. I highly recommend her material, which is engaging, informative, inspiring, and wise. So much truth and knowledge was shared in just 90 enjoyable minutes. I feel more empowered in my own life and to engage these topics with my own clients.”-E.R. Seattle, WA
“I appreciated the pacing of the webinar. Dr. Lin took the time to provide cultural context as well as slowing down to check in with our bodies. The cultural context resonated a lot with me as someone who feels between cultures (Taiwanese vs American). It also helped me have the language to talk about some of the difficulties of being more assertive in my romantic relationship and gave me ideas on how to set healthy boundaries with my non-Asian husband.” -L, Pittsburgh, PA
“This was one of the most powerful workshops I have attended and helped me to better understand myself.” -N
“I loved Dr. Lin’s workshop training on boundaries. Everything she shared and talked about resonated with my own story. I felt validated and seen. I enjoyed how engaged the other attendees were in the chat and how Dr. Lin addressed and incorporated the comments from the attendees throughout the event. I’m grateful for being able to participate in the healing space Dr. Lin has created.” -J, WA state
“It was very powerful to be in a space meant for people who struggle to be seen and heard, to sit and acknowledge where we are, and what we can do to work on self preservation and growth.”– L, CA
“As a person that is familiar with the concepts, Dr. Lin’s presentation brought it to a different level. Thank you!” -J, Portland, OR
“Dr. Lin’s webinar created a safe space for Asian American women to share their experiences. This is not something that I’ve ever had in my entire life, and to hear everyone’s collective experiences made me realize that I’m not alone in my struggles. She truly understands how difficult it is to grow up with completely opposite cultural values at the same time, and helps us understand how to reconcile them.” -S
Contact Dr. Lin to set up a free initial consult
Please feel free to call me at 408-828-8375 or send a message below to inquire about services.
Contact Dr. Lin
Please note that completing this form goes through my Gmail account (EllenJLin@gmail.com). You are welcome to call me at 408-828-8375, and/or you may note some available times when you’re free to talk without detailing your struggles.
Ellen J. Lin, PhD 
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