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Storytelling as Healing for the Soul
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Healing and Compassion
When we are spiraling in anxiety or lost in the fog of depression, it’s easy to feel like we are a problem to be solved. I believe we are a process unfolding.
Healing isn’t about becoming "perfect"—it’s about radical compassion, the brave act of staying with yourself long enough to work with the circumstances of your life until you find the gold within. Together, we move beyond the search for a "cure" and instead reveal the depth and value that have been there all along.
A Place for the Fractured
Have you ever felt too broken?
Maybe you’ve felt like a mistake—fundamentally imperfect, incomplete, or too flawed to be whole. As a queer Asian-American, I have been there. For a long time, I felt like a collection of pieces with no place, purpose, or value.
But my cultural roots remind and teach me a different story.
I think of Cơm Tấm, the Vietnamese "Broken Rice" dish. These are the grains that shatter under the pressure of the mill. To a sterile system, they are waste; to my culture, they are the ultimate comfort food. Because the grain is fractured, it has more surface area. It doesn't just sit next to the flavor—it absorbs it. It holds a depth that "perfect" grains can never reach.
To be broken does not mean you are discarded. It means you are open. I’ve learned that when we embrace our own fractures, we become like that bowl of broken rice: seasoned, deep, and capable of offering true comfort to a world that is also hurting. Your history of being "shattered" is exactly what allows you to absorb the richness of life and extend an empathetic warmth and compassion to others.
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Talking as Medicine for the Mind
Do you feel "all in your head" and stuck in overthinking loops?
You’re trying to "manage" your anxiety, but your body still feels tense?
You feel disconnected from your physical self, like a floating head.
With narrative and talk as medicine for the mind, we move from over-analyzing your problems to finally feeling at home in your own skin. By fusing psychological depth with the science of the nervous system, we clear the mental fog and transition from "fixing" a malfunction to inhabiting your life with clarity, love, compassion, curiosity, and humor. Stories allow us to expand into deeper truths that are looking to break out of our hearts and minds and into reality.
Re-enchanting Life with Magic
You’re so focused on checking every box of success, yet life feels gray and empty.
You’ve lost your sense of wonder, play, or creative spark.
You ignore your intuition or feelings because they don't seem "logical" or "productive."
We make room for the unmeasurable parts of being human. By honoring your dreams, your synchronicities, and your soul’s hidden longings, we reconnect you to the "magic" that logic tends to ignore. This is how we move from surviving a checklist to feeling truly alive, Soulful, spontaneous, and creative.
Healing Together through Mahayana Buddhism
You feel like you’re on a lonely island, carrying your burdens in isolation.
You feel a sense of pervasive emptiness (sunyata) in the world and modern existence.
You’re looking for something to hold onto in a sea of change, uncertainty and impermanence (anicca).
We lean into the "Great Vehicle" (Mahayana) of compassion to remind you that you are part of a larger whole. We shift the focus from the lonely struggle of the "I" to the radical interconnection of the "We," practicing the Buddhist truth that our liberation is tied to one another. Healing is giving. Giving is healing.
Hi there! I’m Benjamin Nguyen, LCSW, CPH
You can call me Ben! Maybe you’re here because you feel a sense of lostness or disconnection that you can’t quite put into words. Perhaps you’re feeling restless, trying to build a life that looks right on paper, but nevertheless feels hollow at the end of the day. I work with people who are tired of skimming the surface and are ready to look at the shadows—the parts of their story that have been buried, silenced, or forgotten.
My practice bridges the gaps between the science of the brain, the psychology of the mind, and the art of the soul.
Here, we don't just talk about your history; we uncover the magic of your own story. We look at the shadows, turn the pages, and rewrite the ending together. Welcome to your next chapter.
I am a triple-UCLA trained psychotherapist, grounded in Anthropology, Public Health, and Social Welfare with postgraduate work at California’s largest mental health research institute—UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. I also have additional certification in Jungian Psychology for Clinical Practice from the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
