Therapeutic Tseng

Individual Therapy

Phone: (240)-388-9333 | Email: contact@therapeutictseng.com

The typical individual therapy session is 50 minutes at the rate of $160 per session. Session options are also available at 30 minutes and 90 minutes depending on your unique situation. All sessions are conducted through telehealth on a videoconferencing platform.

You will receive a Good Faith Estimate displaying information regarding expected costs for treatment. You are able to submit these therapy sessions to your insurance company and use your out-of-network benefits to receive reimbursement. I partner with Mentaya to submit your superbills to your insurance company so that you don’t have to do it yourself and still get your reimbursement. The cost for this service is $8, which is 5% of the session fee. You can use Mentaya’s insurance benefits checker here.

Culture and Race

Working through the vast and expansive topics of cultural trauma, racial identity, intergenerational trauma, and identity are what I do everyday. I'm invested in exploring and healing for my clients in session. When I'm not in session, I'm always curiously investigating and reflecting on these themes in my own life and what I witness in everyday life. To learn more about my core beliefs, please go to the Asian Americans and BIPOC Healing pages.

Financial Psychology and Sex Workers

In order to access deeper levels of freedom, liberation, and autonomy, we must examine our relationship with power, money, and sex. Money and Sex are two important currencies in which we access and experience power. Power is not good or bad, but we can be without power or disempowered.

I have completed the Financial Therapy Association’s video education series on financial therapy. In addition, I use concepts from intergenerational trauma, manifestation, and quantum shifting to help clients break unhealthy financial patterns and develop abundant financial behaviors. Most of us have learned unhealthy financial behaviors from our upbringing. Examples include scarcity mindset (when you fear that money and resources are finite and limited), compulsive or overspending (when you feel the need to spend in order to compensate for something else emotionally) , and financial abuse in relationships (using money to gain power or control in a relationship). When we do financial psychology work, we will identify and rewrite negative or disempowered stories we learned about how money works in our life. We will also increase our confidence and belief in self that we can create the financial abundance that we desire.

Sex workers are very often misunderstood and stigmatized. Through my four years of working with sex workers, I have come to understand that sex workers, with the right intention, serve as very powerful healers for people with sexual trauma wounds as well as those with self-loathing issues. Not everyone feels comfortable coming to see a therapist. For deeply wounded people, a sex worker is the only person they may trust to work on sexual vulnerability or on issues of self-worth. Sexual trauma is one of the most difficult clinical issues to treat because it is one of the most brutal forms of power violation. Most sexual trauma survivors feel misunderstood and suffer in isolation because they find difficulty trusting others for help. Sex workers are adept and comfortable navigating areas of sexuality in an accepting and compassionate way that allows opportunities for sexual trauma survivors to interface with the topic of sex and power and reclaim their own sexual autonomy. It is my pride and honor to provide therapy support to sex workers who are also healers. Frequent therapy topics include unique lifestyles, navigating stigma of society and loved ones, issues of financial scarcity and abundance, and any other issue that other folks face. I also work with Pineapple Support to provide subsidized sessions for sex workers.

Energy

We know about the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. The sixth sense is about perceive the energetic field around you. Many cultures have had the concept of energy as a real palpable thing that affects us. It is called Qi in Chinese culture and Prana in the Indian tradition. How we are on an energetic level and how we are impacted by outside energy greatly impacts our mental health.

Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, healers, and therapists frequently talk about becoming burned out after being with people. What’s going on here? Those particular groups of people are most attuned to the energetic field. They become exhausted when using too much of their own energy to connect with others and become easily overwhelmed when receiving too much energy from others. I work with my clients to become aware of their own energy field and understand the impact of others’ interactions on their energy field. By setting boundaries and protecting our energy, we can keep from becoming overly depleted or energetically and emotionally violated by others.

Boundaries are an important concept physically, emotionally, and energetically because it prevents violation and retains a person’s sovereignty. To set the best boundaries, we align our thoughts, emotions, decisions, and actions together to set a unified boundary to support and protect us.

Inner Child Work

Deep inner child work involves setting energetic boundaries across time and space. It involves becoming aware of the energy of the childhood you who is wounded. Even though your inner child may have had their boundaries violated in the past, those violations are still affecting you today. Learning to retroactively set energetic boundaries for our inner children helps us heal negative beliefs that we can or deserve to be violated, and creates a ripple effect of fortitude for our selves going forward.