Jennifer Chen Speckman, LCSW
A Group Practice
Oakland, CA

About Teresa Trinh, AMFT

I am a first-generation daughter of immigrants from Southeast Asia. I embrace my identities as a Chinese-American woman, Bay Area native, truth-seeker, and rule-breaker living in between and across cultures.

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My deepest personal values are rooted in radical self-awareness, family, community, and social justice. Other practices that influence my work as a therapist include my meditation practice, Buddhist philosophy, movement and dance, and artistic endeavors. In my professional life, I have worked at non-profits, in the tech industry, and have been an entrepreneur.

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I practice through a social justice and anti-oppression lens and treat each individual within their collective, systemic, and historical context. I resonate strongly with working with Asian American and Pacific Islanders, people of color, immigrants and descendants of immigrants, and LGBTQ-identified folks.

I can support folks dealing with but not limited to the following:

• Career and professional challenges in the work place 

• Cultural identity connection and formation

• Trauma (systemic, intergenerational, developmental, interpersonal, and incidental)

• Anxiety

• Grief and loss

• Professional development and stress management

• Systemic oppression

• Relationship issues

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I hold a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. My clinical approach is molded to a client’s needs in the moment, and includes psychodynamic, cultural-relational, depth, humanistic, person-centered, strengths-based, cognitive-behavioral (CBT), somatic, expressive arts, and trauma-informed modalities.

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I bring a gentle, warm, and holding presence with a capacity for playfulness and directness when appropriate. I am competent at steadily guiding clients deeper into the unconscious, discovering meaningful insights, and finding tangible ways forward. I show up with profound patience, acceptance, and honesty. My purpose is to help clients tap into their inner wisdom and achieve a greater sense of fulfillment, connection, and liberation.

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