Sending you a warm welcome.

If you’ve stumbled upon my page, you’re likely seeking emotional support and helpful skills to navigate life’s challenges.

1. Perhaps you’ve felt stuck, sad or anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your work, family, relationships, or even yourself.
2. You may identify with feelings of overwhelm, discouragement, and loss as you contemplate life transitions such as being a new mother, parent, or partner.
3. You can resonate with the experience of guilt, pressure, and burnout due to being a child of immigrants, a high-performing working professional, and trying to build a life that feels intentional outside of external demands.

As a client in my practice, you’ll be presented with inclusive, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive feedback and skills. As we build our professional relationship, it is my goal for you to feel comfortable so you can be honest and safe with your heavy and sometimes big unpleasant feelings, defeating thoughts and difficult life experiences. We work together to process your thoughts, examine thinking patterns or habits, and common stressors, and allow room for acceptance of things you cannot control. In therapy, you can gain new skills as you talk through your lived experience from a culturally sensitive lens. Your story is unique, so we will work together to navigate treatment goals that can improve your quality of life.

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Michelle Vo, LCSW (she/hers) is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist whose practice is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has offices in San Francisco, San Bruno, and Cupertino. Michelle is a first-generation Vietnamese American and her practice’s value is to provide quality long-term and culturally responsive services to all of her clients.

• Her specialty is working with perinatal and postpartum mothers, high-achieving professionals,  young adults, Asian Americans, and people of color (BIPOC). Michelle is passionate about helping people meet acceptance of their current and past selves and improving their quality of life by assisting her clients with reframing their thinking, self-validation, and assurance.
• Her most common therapeutic interventions derive from a culturally sensitive, trauma and social justice-informed lens. Modalities of treatment include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectal Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy. Her experience includes working in inpatient and outpatient psychiatry departments, interdisciplinary medical systems in OBGYN, corporate technology settings, and disruptive events treatment and consultations.