Books & Resources
The Everyday Clinician's Guide to Sex Addiction
If you are an “everyday clinician” who:
-Works with individuals, couples, or families
-Treats trauma, attachment wounds, compulsive behaviors, or relational distress
-Finds sexual behavior issues emerging alongside other presenting concerns
This guide is designed to support you.
How to Use This Guide
What follows reflects the tools, frameworks, and language I have found most helpful over the years of clinical work with individuals struggling with sexual addiction and shame-based behaviors. That said, every therapist brings a unique style, theoretical orientation, cultural lens, and clinical judgment to their work.
This packet is organized to support clinicians from intake through ongoing treatment, using an Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed, culturally attuned, and shame-reducing lens.
Asian Shame and Addiction: Suffering in Silence
Many Asians are drowning in cultural shame and addictions thus “suffering in silence”. Shame is embedded in the Asian way of thinking, behaving, and interacting. If you do not understand the cultural history of shame and its underpinnings, then you will have a hard time understanding the mindset of typical Asians, let alone the stranglehold of shame in their midst.
Spoken not Broken:
Healing through Poetry
This is a collection of poetry touching on themes related to Asian-American identity, mental health, addictions, and faith. The poems were inspired from personal and professional experiences.