Offering Emotionally-Centered,
Trauma-Informed
Couples & Individual Psychotherapy
Aloha. I’m Li Hay
I offer compassionate, emotionally-centered psychotherapy sessions online for individuals and couples. I will also be providing in-person sessions starting in early 2025 on Maui.
I hold a Master of Science degree (MS) in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and am pursuing my PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy as I work towards my LMFT license in Hawai’i.
My approach to my work is compassionate and non-pathologizing. I utilize the evidence-based models of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients become empowered to make significant changes in their lives by deepening their relationship with themselves in order to heal the underlying emotive causes contributing to dissatisfaction and conflict in their relationships with themselves and with others.
The Foundations of My Approach
Holistic & Systemic
Humans are complex. Many factors, including environment, culture, personal history, socioeconomic status, physiology & genetics, and beliefs contribute to what we feel, think/believe, and do. I consider all of these factors and how they interplay with each other in a client’s system when working with clients to develop significant paths for healing.
Emotionally-Centered
I offer a space where all emotions are welcome. Emotions are the most fundamental aspect of being human. They drive our decisions and behaviors and inform us of how we are impacted by our worlds. The more we can be with our emotions, the more we can be at choice with our behaviors and choose positive change for different outcomes.
Trauma-Informed
There are many types of trauma. Everyone experiences trauma to some degree, both large and small. As a trauma-informed therapist, I recognize how past trauma can influence current perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors, and I can offer healing paths to process the intense emotions from past traumas that are often held in the body.
Culturally Sensitive
Culture is foundational to who we are, how we process reality, and how we express (or don’t express) ourselves to others. As a culturally sensitive therapist and cultural student, I bring an awareness of the depth of this cultural influence and have developed a process to bridge cultural differences in our growing multicultural world.
My Therapeutic Offerings
Introductory Meeting
20 minutes - Free
An opportunity to talk story to find out if we are a ‘right’ fit and answer questions before beginning therapeutic work together
Individual Therapy
60 minutes - $115
Identify and explore personal issues to develop goals for change, learn emotional resiliency, process emotions, and heal trauma
Couples Therapy
90 minutes - $200
A place for intimate partners to improve their relationships, repair relational ruptures, resolve conflicts, and deepen intimacy
Workshops
1-3 Days - TBD
Experiential topic-specific workshops to deepen clients’ work, focus on specific skills, and deepen understanding of concepts
Sliding scale equitable pricing is available.
Contact Li to learn more.
