Carmen Chen

About

How did a job I once felt lucky to land start costing me this much? That is the question I hear most often, usually from people still performing competence while something quietly comes loose underneath. A lot of suffering that looks personal is really about the workplace itself, not about you. A culture that rewards self-erasure, a role that quietly expands while your say in it shrinks, a boss whose approval you cannot stop chasing: these are environment problems wearing a personal disguise. We separate what is really yours to carry from what the setting handed you, and from there real choices open up that were invisible while you were only coping. Therapy, to me, is a craft I am never quite finished learning, which keeps me honest about whether our sessions are actually earning their place in your week. Expect me to be steady and level-headed, more interested in what works for you than in any method for its own sake. If you have been silently asking that question for a while, let's talk it through.