Psychoanalysis for Asian Americans | Meera Lee | Licensed Psychoanalyst | New York City
Many Asian American individuals and Asian international students encounter pressures related to high achievement, academic and professional expectations. Despite outward success, one may feel isolated, experience a sense of being an outsider, or find it difficult to speak about what remains unrecognized.
In academic and professional settings, these pressures are often accompanied by loneliness and a certain hesitation in articulating one’s experience within family or social expectations. It can be challenging to find a place where these experiences may be spoken and taken seriously.
Psychoanalysis offers a space for this. By speaking to an analyst, one may begin to encounter what returns in the form of repeating patterns, impasses in relationships, or persistent dissatisfaction.
Through this work, it becomes possible to come to a different relation to these stalemates and to find a way of situating one’s desire that is singular to each person.
Those interested in beginning psychoanalysis are welcome to make contact.