As a non-Chinese heritage practitioner working in China, I was always refining my multicultural competency.

As a nature-loving and emotions-focused therapist, I was naturally drawn to outdoor, social, and sensory activities when my children were younger.

My first experience with using an animal in my work was years ago, in an institutional orphanage in the outskirts of Beijing.

When I worked in Shanghai, I had not yet heard the American term “Gotcha Days.”

I had the immense privilege of working as an in-house therapist at a group foster home in the outskirts of Shanghai.