Elliot Lee (he/him)

As an immigrant, Elliot faced various challenges during his adolescence, which formed in him a passion for wholeness. Working through the resulting depression for many years, he came to experience first-hand healing that he now seeks to share with his clients. In therapy, Elliot’s basic commitment is to treat you with unconditional warmth and regard. The safety provided by this softened perception will help you to explore without fear of judgment your core habits and narratives. The truth is that our sense of who we are is always bound up with others' perceptions: We learn to love ourselves from being loved. We learn gentleness from being addressed gently. We grow and heal as we hear words that understand and nurture us. Over time fragmented parts of your personality can become whole, depression can turn into acceptance, and anxiety can give way to a readiness to face life. Who knows? One day you might be able to look back at everything with a lens of gratitude!

"When a therapist can maintain a larger awareness of the client's inherent goodness and well-being, while allowing him to go through whatever he needs to go through to arrive at this awareness himself, this provides a model for how a client can begin to trust himself. In discovering his own greater heart and mind, a client begins to connect with his own wisdom, which helps him see that he is much larger than the stories—good or bad—he tells about himself. Yet for the client to make these discoveries, it is essential that the therapist have this kind of trust himself, not as an article of belief, but as a living experience." - From Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship edited by John Welwood