Living with ease and lasting change is within your reach.
My work is rooted in a simple but profound belief: lasting change happens beneath the surface. Not through willpower or insight alone, but through a deeper meeting with the parts of ourselves that formed long before we had words for them.
I bring together three interconnected approaches to support that kind of healing.
Jungian-Informed Therapy, including Sandplay: At the heart of my practice is a Jungian orientation that understands healing as something that happens beneath the level of conscious thought. Through therapy, we gently bring these deeper layers into consciousness, uncovering the roots of patterns, struggles, and longings that may have felt mysterious or beyond our control. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, depth psychology asks why — exploring the meaning behind your experiences and helping you develop a fuller, more authentic sense of self.
Jungian Sandplay was developed by Dora Kalff, a Swiss Jungian-oriented therapist, in the 1950s. It is a powerful nonverbal and symbolic form of therapy that gives clients the opportunity to portray, rather than verbalize, feelings, experiences, and internal states that are often difficult or impossible to express in words. Paired with talk therapy, it opens a doorway to deeper transformation.
Integrating Mindfulness and the principles of RIE (Resources of Infant Educaring® Approach): RIE is a philosophy of care originally developed for infants, centered on respect, attunement, and the belief that even the youngest child is a capable, whole person deserving of presence and trust. In my work with clients, I integrate these principles with mindfulness as a pathway toward genuine attunement: first with ourselves, and then with others. Through mindfulness, we develop the capacity to notice our own inner thoughts, feelings, and reactivity without being swept away by them. That awareness creates a non-judgmental holding space; a place of stillness from which we can respond rather than react. It is from that place that true attunement becomes possible: the ability to be fully present with another person, and with the younger parts of ourselves that still carry what they needed and didn't receive. When we explore our own earliest experiences through this lens, we begin to understand how the presence or absence of that kind of attuned holding shaped the way we relate to ourselves and others today.
Inner child depth work brings these threads together. The inner child is the part of us that carries the original emotional imprint of our early experiences. When that part of us is wounded, we often feel it as anxiety, relational difficulty, a persistent sense of not-enoughness, or an inexplicable grief or restlessness we can't trace to any single cause. Through a depth-oriented approach, we create the conditions for that younger self to be met with the understanding it always deserved.
For any individual or couple, the way we were raised lives in us, often unconsciously, shaping how we show up in our closest relationships, how we respond under stress, and how we understand our own worth. I offer a space to examine that inheritance with care, so you can move through life from intention rather than reflex.
My journey with this work of inner healing began in 2001. I hold a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Divinity and bring together a spiritual-contemplative foundation with psychotherapeutic depth to support you towards emotional wellbeing and resilience. As an Asian therapist fluent in English and Spanish, I am committed to honoring the layered ways that culture, identity, and belonging shape our inner lives.
If something in you is ready to go deeper, I'd be glad to walk alongside you.
Su Fern Khoo, MS, MDiv, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Registered Sandplay Practitioner (Sandplay Therapists of America)