THERAPY • WORKSHOPS • SPEAKING • CONSULTING

Healing Out Lao’d offers community-centered healing spaces, workshops, retreats, consultations, and educational programming rooted in Lao and Southeast Asian mental health, storytelling, intergenerational healing, and collective care.

Through culturally grounded conversations, resources, and experiences, HOL supports individuals and communities navigating identity, grief, burnout, healing, and life beyond survival mode.

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY (telehealth-based)

Rita offers virtual individual therapy sessions for adults navigating intergenerational trauma, identity exploration, grief, burnout, anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, and the emotional impacts of surviving systems rooted in displacement, migration, oppression, and survival.

Rita’s therapeutic approach is warm, affirming, relational, and culturally grounded while also encouraging accountability, reflection, and meaningful growth. As a Lao American licensed psychotherapist, I deeply understand the nuanced experiences many children of refugees and immigrants may carry while navigating healing, family dynamics, belonging, and life beyond survival mode.

While my work centers the Lao and broader Southeast Asian diaspora experience, I also work with individuals from diverse backgrounds seeking a compassionate, culturally responsive, and socially conscious approach to mental health care.

All therapy sessions are currently offered virtually through a secure telehealth platform for California residents.

Therapeutic Approaches:

My therapeutic approach integrates trauma-informed, resilience-centered, and culturally grounded practices that may include:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • Narrative & Storytelling Approaches

  • Attachment-Based Therapy

  • Somatic & Mind-Body Awareness

  • Prolonged Exposure Therapy

  • Healing-Centered & Psychosocial Approaches

Areas of Support

  • Intergenerational Trauma & PTSD

  • Grief, Loss & Life Transitions

  • Anxiety, Burnout & Emotional Overwhelm

  • Identity Exploration & Belonging

  • Immigrant & Refugee Family Dynamics

  • Relationship Patterns & Boundaries

  • Self-Worth, Perfectionism & Imposter Syndrome

  • Healing Beyond Survival Mode

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WORKSHOPS

Healing Out Lao’d offers culturally grounded workshops, trainings, healing discussions, and educational programming for universities, community organizations, leadership spaces, nonprofits, student groups, and teams seeking conversations rooted in mental health, storytelling, intergenerational healing, and collective care.

Workshops can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your community, organization, classroom, or team. Past workshops and discussion topics have included:

  • Creating Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Work Environments

  • Healing Intergenerational Trauma in Southeast Asian Communities

  • Mental Health & Collective Care for BIPOC Communities

  • Anxiety, Stress Management & Burnout Prevention

  • Podcasting & Storytelling as Tools for Social Change

  • Mindfulness, Meditation & Nervous System Regulation

  • Intergroup Dialogue & Community Building Tools

  • Effective, Assertive & Compassionate Communication Skills

  • Identity, Belonging & Healing Beyond Survival Mode

  • Healing People-Pleasing, Self-Worth & Self-Esteem

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

With over 10 years of community engagement, facilitation, and presentation experience, Rita brings a grounded, dynamic, and culturally responsive approach to speaking engagements across higher education institutions, nonprofits, community organizations, leadership spaces, small businesses, and corporate settings.

Her work often centers Southeast Asian mental health, intergenerational trauma, storytelling, burnout prevention, identity, grief, collective care, healing justice, and life beyond survival mode.

Available speaking formats may include:

  • Keynote Addresses

  • Panel Discussions & Interviews

  • Corporate Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) & EAP Programming

  • Professional Development Trainings

  • Community Healing Conversations

  • Workshops & Educational Presentations

  • Media Features & Podcast Guest Appearances

Speaking engagements can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization, audience, classroom, team, or community!

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CONSULTATION

Rita offers 30- and 60-minute consultation services for individuals, organizations, educators, leadership spaces, community groups, and teams seeking culturally grounded support around mental health, healing-centered practices, collective care, and programming development.

Her consultation work is informed by years of experience supporting formerly incarcerated individuals, current and former foster youth, survivors of gender-based violence, BIPOC communities, undocumented immigrants and refugees, queer communities, and first-generation students and professionals.

Consultation topics may include:

  • Southeast Asian mental health

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • Healing-centered programming

  • Burnout prevention & collective care

  • Community engagement & facilitation

  • Identity, belonging & storytelling

  • Trauma-informed approaches for organizations and teams

Schedule a free 15-minute complimentary consultation to explore the needs of you, your team, organization, or community!

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