About May

The Official Stuff

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), which means that I have been specially trained to assess and provide insights into the insidious patterns and cycles that get relationships stuck. I received my M.S. in Human Development with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech, and completed my B.A. in psychology at the University of Virginia.

Prior to starting my own practice, I worked at local government agencies with at-risk teens and children who witnessed domestic violence.

I’ve helped individuals and families through issues such as anxiety and depression, family and life transitions, perinatal mood disorders, the immigrant experience, suicidality and self-harm ideation, substance abuse, oppositional defiance disorder, intergenerational trauma, abuse, other complex trauma, and truancy. I’ve helped individuals heal from the hurts they carry. I’ve helped families reconnect when life and relationships were dangling by a thread.

I co-host a podcast called Shit Your Therapist Reads on which we review mental health-related books.

What I Love About This Work

We humans carry around so many secrets. Secret joys, secret pains, secret wishes - things we’re scared to share because it could hurt. I get to bear witness to this. I get to bear witness to the most beautiful and tender parts of humanity. How lucky am I, to be entrusted with this stuff that makes up the very core of us?

The Unofficial Stuff

First and foremost, I am: Me. Then: A wife, mom, daughter of immigrants, sister, friend, and aunt. I have my own neuroses. I have been, and still am, both the Hero and the Villain in my story. I share the same joys and sadnesses as you. My promise to you: We work together, we walk through this together.

And now, finally, the most important stuff: I like pre-pop and post-COVID era Taylor Swift, hot drinks on cold days, and going barefoot as often as possible (see photo).