Meet Alisa Wu, MHC-LP, an East Asian therapist dedicated to helping clients explore the
deeper layers of their emotional world. With advanced training in multiple evidence-based
modalities, she brings both extensive clinical expertise and cultural understanding to her work.
Alisa is a Level 2 trained AEDP therapist.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
(AEDP) is an experiential, attachment-based approach that focuses on accessing and
transforming core emotional experiences. Rather than just talking about feelings, this
approach creates moments where you can actually feel and process emotions in a safe, attuned
relationship, leading to profound shifts in self-compassion and building safe relationships.
Drawing from a psychodynamic perspective, Alisa helps clients understand unconscious
patterns formed early in life that continue to shape how they relate to themselves and others.
By bringing these patterns into awareness, therapy creates space for new ways of being with
more freedom and clarity.

Alisa also integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients work with different "parts" of
themselves—the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the protector—with curiosity rather than
judgment. This approach is particularly effective for those carrying shame or self-criticism.
For couples, Alisa draws on Level 2 training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an
attachment-based approach that helps partners understand their conflict patterns and create
deeper and safer emotional connection.

Alisa works particularly well with:

● People-pleasers and highly self-critical individuals who are processing childhood
trauma and want to build self-compassion and relationships where they feel truly seen,
not just valued for taking care of others.

● Clients healing from trauma, whether relational, developmental, or cultural. Her
attachment based, experiential approaches (AEDP, IFS, EFT) are specifically designed
for trauma work, accessing implicit memory, the emotional and bodily patterns stored
from early experiences, to create lasting change beyond what talk therapy alone can
achieve.

● High achievers who've tied their self-worth to external validation (grades, job titles,
productivity) and are seeking a more grounded, internalized sense of identity.

● Those navigating East Asian family dynamics, including guilt toward parents,
over-controlling or critical parenting, inherited money trauma, emotional distance, and
boundary struggles, etc.

● Intellectually sophisticated clients who bring depth and nuance to therapy and may
have felt misunderstood in other spaces (Alisa studied philosophy in her undergraduate
years and values the complexity these clients bring).