A middle-aged bilingual Korean-speaking Asian female therapist with short black hair smiling, wearing a pearl necklace and a light-colored short-sleeved top, standing against a plain white background.

01/03

Kate Han, AMFT

Registered Associate MFT 158365 / working under supervision

I am a bilingual Korean-speaking Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #158365, practicing under the supervision of Elizabeth Rhee, LMFT #122155. I am certified in Brainspotting, Level 2 Restoration Therapy, and Prepare Enrich. I am also trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy Levels 1 and 2. I approach therapy with empathy, cultural awareness, and a deep commitment to creating a safe, supportive space where you can feel truly seen, heard, and valued. I am based in Pasadena and Koreatown, and offer both in-person and virtual sessions throughout California in fluent English and Korean.

I work with those of you experiencing depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, burnout, codependency, or spiritual disillusionment, as well as those seeking greater meaning and connection. In our work together, we will explore what may be holding you back, uncover patterns, and cultivate resilience, self-compassion, and healthier relationships with yourself and others.

I have a special interest in supporting adult children navigating complex relationships with immigrant parents. Many of you carry generational trauma, face cultural or language barriers, or feel disconnected from parents who may be coping with their own histories. I help you set healthy boundaries and foster understanding and freedom within your family relationships. I also support older first-generation immigrant parents who want deeper connections with their adult children. Together, we will strengthen intimacy, trust, and mutual understanding, bridge generational gaps, and create more meaningful family connections.

If you and your partner feel stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed, you are not alone. Many couples struggle with repeating arguments, feeling misunderstood, balancing parenting, or carrying the weight of past wounds and differences. I will help you uncover patterns that keep you stuck, strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and create a relationship where both of you feel heard, supported, and deeply connected.

My lived experience spans careers in healthcare, real estate, and faith-based work. I have navigated life as a daughter caring for aging parents, a mother of two adult children, and a wife to a partner with a busy and demanding work schedule, giving me firsthand understanding of the challenges of juggling multiple roles. Having immigrated as a teen and grown up as the child of hardworking immigrant parents, I have a deep appreciation for the joys, struggles, and complexities of immigrant family life.

Holding space for healing is part of my calling. Life’s challenges often contain the seeds of growth, and I will walk alongside you as you face old patterns that no longer serve you, allowing your brightest self to emerge. Within a safe and compassionate therapeutic relationship, you can experience nurturing care, confront what holds you back, and learn to extend that same compassion to yourself. It is an honor to walk with you as you step into a whole, healed, and empowered version of yourself.

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02/03

Clinical Focus

Anxiety, Mood, & Emotional Well‑Being

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Stress management, burnout, and work/life balance

  • Imposter syndrome

  • Self‑doubt

Identity, Transitions, & Cultural Stressors

  • Identity exploration

  • Cultural or ethnic stressors

  • First‑ and second‑generation immigrant family dynamics

  • Family‑of‑origin wounds

  • adjustment/life transitions such as growing children, empty nests, loss, or career changes

  • Spiritual disillusionment

  • Christian faith and other spirituality (all faiths welcome) exploration

  • Grief and loss

  • Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) related challenges

Relationships, Couples, & Family Dynamics

Trauma & Chronic Stress

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My Approach

Empowering
Encouraging
Directive

I use Restoration Therapy and Brainspotting together because they each support healing in powerful and meaningful ways. Restoration Therapy helps us understand how your history, family, culture, and past relationships shape the way you see yourself and connect with others. As we name the patterns that keep you stuck, we begin creating new ways of responding that feel more authentic, grounded, and freeing. Brainspotting helps us reach the deeper places where stress, trauma, and old emotions have been held. When these experiences surface safely, real emotional, relational, and neurological change becomes possible. My style is warm, intuitive, and gently direct. I aim to empower and encourage you whether you come as an individual or as a couple. Together, we clarify emotions, shift unhelpful beliefs, and build practical steps that support lasting healing, connection, and growth.


THERAPIST-CLIENT FIT IS IMPORTANT TO THE THERAPY EXPERIENCE 

I offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation to determine if we might be a good fit to work together. It takes courage to reach out for support. I consider it a privilege to journey alongside you toward your healing and wellness that empowers you to live out your most authentic life.

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Frequently Asked Questions

In-person therapy at our Pasadena and Los Angeles Office in Koreatown. Virtual therapy across California.

  • Yes. Kate works with individuals, couples, and families of all backgrounds, in fluent English or Korean. Many clients choose her because she understands how family, culture, and faith shape relationships, whatever their background. She brings a wealth of lived experience and high quality clinicial training to her therapy work.

  • Yes. Kate works with couples from different racial, cultural, language, and faith backgrounds. She helps partners navigate family acceptance, in-law expectations, hurtful comments from family or community, different ways of handling conflict and emotion, and how to raise children with both cultures, so each partner feels understood and the marriage comes first.

  • Kate helps you understand how pain, survival patterns, and unspoken expectations get passed down in immigrant families, and how they show up in your anxiety, relationships, and sense of self. She uses insight and experiential-oriented talk therapy alongside Brainspotting, a body-based approach that helps process what words alone can't reach.

  • Does Kate support new moms with postpartum depression and parenting support?

    Yes. Kate supports new and expecting mothers through postpartum depression, anxiety, parenting support, and the identity shift of becoming a parent, in Korean or English. She understands the added pressure many Asian and Asian American moms feel, including postpartum care traditions, mother-in-law expectations, and the pull between how they were raised and how they want to parent.

    네. Kate 선생님은 한국어와 영어 모두 가능한 이중언어 상담사로, 캘리포니아 어디에 계시든 온라인으로 상담을 받으실 수 있습니다. 산후우울증과 육아 스트레스, 국제결혼 부부의 갈등, 시댁·처가와의 관계, 번아웃, 이민 가정의 세대 간 갈등 등을 편안하게 한국어로 이야기하실 수 있습니다. 상담 시간에는 캘리포니아 안에 계셔야 합니다.

  • Yes. Kate offers therapy in Korean for first-generation parents, in person in Koreatown and Pasadena or online anywhere in California. Your parents need to choose therapy for themselves. Many families start with the adult child booking a free consultation to talk through how to approach their parents.

    코리아타운과 패서디나 오피스에서 대면 상담이 가능하며, 어바인, 풀러턴, 부에나파크, 토렌스, 세리토스, 다이아몬드바, 샌디에이고, 산타클라라 등 캘리포니아 어디에서나 온라인 상담도 가능합니다.

  • Yes. Kate moves between Korean and English in the same session, so each person can speak in the language that feels most natural. Often for the first time, parents and children hear what the other has been trying to say.

  • This is very common in Korean families, where struggles are often kept private to protect the family. Kate understands that hesitation. She can help you find a way to invite your parents that respects their values, or work with you individually on the relationship in the meantime.

  • Yes. Kate helps couples with conflict, communication, in-law expectations, infidelity, and decisions about the future of the marriage, in Korean or English. She also offers premarital counseling for engaged couples.

  • Yes. Kate helps intercultural and interracial couples navigate different family expectations, holiday and in-law traditions, faith, and parenting, so both partners feel understood.

  • Yes. For individuals, couples, and families who want their faith included, Kate offers faith-integrated counseling in Korean or English. However, Kate also works with people from other faith and spiritual backgrounds who wish to intergrate their faith as a resource.

  • Yes. Many of Kate's clients feel caught between two cultures: too Korean for American life and too American for their family. She helps them make sense of that in-between space and build an identity that holds both.

  • Kate sees clients in person at our Koreatown office at 3456 W Olympic Blvd, Suite 104, and our Pasadena office at 236 W Mountain St, Suite 202D. In-person clients often come from Koreatown, Mid-Wilshire, Hancock Park, Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, and Glendale. She also sees clients online anywhere in California.

  • Yes. Kate offers online therapy in Korean or English to clients anywhere in California, including Korean communities in Orange County (Irvine, Fullerton, Buena Park, Garden Grove, La Palma, Cypress, and Anaheim), the South Bay (Torrance, Gardena, and Palos Verdes), Cerritos, the San Gabriel Valley (Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, Walnut, Hacienda Heights, and Arcadia), Chino Hills, San Diego, Sacramento, and the Bay Area (Santa Clara, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Fremont, Palo Alto, and Oakland). You need to be physically located in California at the time of each session.