Eddy Therapy, 2345 S. Atlantic Boulevard #1122, Monterey Park, CA (2025)

08/26/2025

It’s not often I use “should,” but therapists need to see therapists too. Many therapists explore deep trauma work and inevitably it can also bring up one’s own experience and might make it challenging in session to cope with. The same way that surgeons see other surgeons and dentists see other dentists, therapy for therapists helps keep emotions regulated and manages counter-transference because we are people too.

Yes, I also have therapy 😌

While I understand the significance of dismantling power dynamics and having a strong therapeutic alliance, the last thing we would want is to have any client carrying our problems when we are meant to support them. 💜

Disclaimer: This account is not a substitute for therapy. This account is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any statement said here should not be taken as professional advice. Information may not be relevant to everyone.

08/25/2025

Sometimes, I post mental health tips. Other times, I post life updates and reflections…

Cyphers are therapeutic. I love it when folks get up to the mic and share what is on their minds in rhyme. Well, sometimes it rhymes. Sometimes, it doesn’t. 😆 While some may battle and compete, an open cypher is a place meant for self-expression. You show your style, skill, and who you are. This is your authentic self in a room possibly full of strangers becoming your community. If you flub on the beat, keep flowing. You might acknowledge the slip up. You might not. It happens so fast in the moment, but keep going. It’s like life. And life doesn’t stop for no one. So keep living, keep learning. History doesn’t repeat itself anyways, it rhymes… sometimes. 😂

Aside from being a licensed therapist, I am the resident host of a monthly open mic in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles . Founded in 2012, we have only two community guidelines. Express, not impress. Free speech, not hate speech. 🎤📝🥰

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08/19/2025

Registration is officially closed for Aug 21. Open signups are available for Oct 16 and Dec 18! Let’s work together soon. 📣🙏🏽

This curriculum is designed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. With enrollment, you will receive:

✨ Online training on Zoom
✨ Certification is valid for 3 years
✨ Learn strategies to recognize the symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges
✨ Get info on how to connect a person to help in crisis and non-crisis situations
✨ Roleplay scenarios to practice having difficult situations
✨ Participants complete a 2-hour self-paced online course before attending an online 5.5 hour instructor-led training

🔥 Gain lifetime digital access to the training manual, workbook, and modules through your own MHFA account

📥 Visit the link in my bio to save your seat today. Max 15 seats each class for an intimate learning environment.

🔒 For private classes only for an organization, school, church, or employer, comment “MHFA” below and I’ll send details to your inbox.

08/12/2025

TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taught Youth MHFA in schools, hospitals, community centers, and now available online. This training is meant for EVERYONE.

1 in 5 teens and young adults live with a mental health condition in the US. 50% of all mental health disorders begin by age 14, and 75% by the mid-20s. Youth Mental Health First Aid informs adults about common mental health concerns encountered by youth. This curriculum is designed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. With enrollment, you will receive:

✨ Online training on Zoom
✨ Certification is valid for 3 years
✨ Learn strategies to recognize the symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges
✨ Get info on how to connect a young person to help in crisis and non-crisis situations
✨ Roleplay scenarios to practice having difficult situations
✨ Participants complete a 2-hour self-paced online course before attending an online 4.5 hour instructor-led training

🔥 Gain lifetime digital access to the training manual, workbook, and modules through your own MHFA account

📥 Visit the link in my bio to save your seat today. Max 15 seats each class for an intimate learning environment.

🔒 For private classes only for an organization, school, church, or employer, comment “MHFA” below and I’ll send details to your inbox.

My private practice offers therapy and trainings like this. More programs are in the works. Let’s work together! 💜🙏🏽

08/05/2025

TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT: I am a proud instructor of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) since 2017. I’ve trained nurses, case managers, teachers, college students, parents, and a couple Tita Baby’s and Kuya Boy’s. 😁 This training is meant for EVERYONE.

As 1 out of 5 adults live with a mental health disorder in the US, MHFA addresses common mental health concerns encountered by adults. This curriculum is designed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. With enrollment, you will receive:

✨ Online training on Zoom
✨ Certification is valid for 3 years
✨ Learn strategies to recognize the symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges
✨ Get info on how to connect a person to help in crisis and non-crisis situations
✨ Roleplay scenarios to practice having difficult situations
✨ Participants complete a 2-hour self-paced online course before attending an online 5.5 hour instructor-led training

🔥 Gain lifetime digital access to the training manual, workbook, and modules through your own MHFA account

📥 Visit the link in my bio to save your seat today. Max 15 seats each class for an intimate learning environment.

🔒 For private classes only for an organization, school, church, or employer, comment “MHFA” below and I’ll send details to your inbox.

Plenty of exciting announcements on the way. Hope to work with you soon! 📣🙏🏽

07/22/2025

In a brave space for activists, community organizers, and ALL levels of experience who are searching for a sense of connection, empowerment coach, ; and therapist, , are co-facilitating a community teach-in about radical care, sustainability in the work, resource building, and community empowerment for social change. Activities include mindfulness exercises, journaling prompts, and an open Q&A discussion to share stories and mutual aid.

Comment “teach-in” and we’ll send you a message. 📨

Suggested $20 donation is welcome. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

More than halfway through 2025, we are witnessing attack after attack on marginalized communities. Increasing ICE raids on undocumented families in Los Angeles, anti-transgender policies enacted across this country, and imperialist wars of aggression in Palestine are top of mind each day. With growing feelings of anxiety, worry, and stress about what is happening, what is our role in people’s movements for genuine liberation against systems of oppression like racism, cisgenderism, and imperialism? What calls to action can we answer and how can we sustain ourselves for the long-term?

Remember: No one is disposable and none of us is free until we are all free.

When: Thursday, July 31, 12-2pm PST
Where: Via Zoom
Sign-up and Donate at: bit.ly/radicalteachin

This work continues with you. We are looking forward to sharing space! 😊✊🏽

07/03/2025

July is Disability Pride Month, an annual celebration of disabilities that connects back to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, a ruling prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. This is a time to honor and uplift the identities, resilience and contributions of disabled people across this country. The disability pride flag colors symbolize a variety of experiences:

❤️: physical disabilities
💛: cognitive and intellectual disabilities
🤍: nonvisible and undiagnosed disabilities
💙: psychiatric disabilities
💚: sensory disabilities
🖤: honoring those who have died due to negligence, su***de, rebellion, illness, and eugenics

Disabilities are visible and invisible. I am seen. Proud to be me. ☺️

This year’s Disability Pride Month theme, “Proud to Be Me,” celebrates the power of authenticity, self-acceptance and visibility. Pride fluorishes when people are seen, respected and fully included as their whole selves.

Source: California Natural Resources ACA Natural Resources Agencysagency)

07/01/2025

Give ourselves permission to laugh, smile, and find joy in the moment. Our kindness is not weakness. Joy is a form of resistance. A reminder, we will not be silent in times of struggle and adversity. When we rage, we will take and break this system. When we play, we will makedamnsure to have fun and take our breaks too, and that’s okay. As much as rest is radical self-care, joy is how we invigorate ourselves that life is worth fighting for. Now, this is not a call that the grass is always greener on the other side. When in fact, it is often the opposite. During the darkest moments, our joy is what makes the opps loath us, wanting to keep us quiet and subdued. When we’re ready, our joy is liberating, a moment to breathe and cheer on. We are here to stay because our joy is a bold act of resistance. Let no one, no institution or system of oppression, ever take our shine away. ✨🧡✊🏽

06/27/2025

Therapy is meant to cultivate and maintain a brave space in and outside of sessions. Key to this process is understanding what harms us both personally and systemically. ❤️‍🩹

Trauma is historical and intergenerational to the present day. As a trauma-informed therapist, it is vital to recognize how systems of oppression, such as racism, cisgenderism, sexism, capitalism, and imperialism, contribute to how we have learned to survive and navigate current events. People do not operate in a vacuum. As we are impacted by systems every day, social change requires radical love, community-building, and action.

Towards a hopeful future together, therapy is political and will always be. 💞✊🏽

06/02/2025

Happy Pride! K(no)w history, k(no)w self. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇭

babaylan are trans filipino shaman. during spanish colonization, so much was taken from us: wisdom, spirituality, language, and identity. gender fluidity, non-binary, and transgender should not be new concepts for filipinos.

look at history.

decolonizing means understanding that white “saviors” are why we self-blame, when really, we deserve to love and celebrate ourselves.

Visit centerforbabaylanstudies.org to learn more. The Center for Babaylan Studies is co-founded by Dr. Leny Strobel, Omehre Sigahne, Leticia Layson, and Baylan Megino.

05/14/2025

Let’s work together. 💞

By utilizing elements of clinical interventions, I would describe my therapeutic style as organic as it is based on a holistic sense of healing by recognizing ancestral practices and addressing systems of oppression. Remember: healing is NEVER linear. It takes intentional practice, and I am fully committed to be right here with you through all the waves.

In CA only, I provide therapy for youth ages 12 and up, individual adults ages 18-64, and families. My expertise is in child abuse, depression, anxiety, trauma, mindfulness, peer relationships, family dynamics, behavioral issues, neurodiversity, creative self-expression, and Filipino/a/x-American cultural values.

I am certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Problem-Solving Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling.

Interested? Book a free 20 minute consultation today and let’s explore the possibilities together. Hope to meet you soon!

05/13/2025

LIFE UPDATE: After nearly 7 years, I am leaving my non-profit employer and focusing 💯 on my private practice. Huge leap for me, and it’s a tad bit scary feeling vulnerable without having a “stable salaried job,” but I already got this far with the support of our LGBTQ+ Filipinx/a/o community.

As a person-centered therapist with a pro-people approach, there are therapeutic parallels between therapy sessions and open mics. While one is confidential and the other is public, they are both brave spaces to self-express and feel connected to someone that listens. This is why I continue to provide therapy and host an open mic series. Ultimately, this space is for you. Just because self-expression is a personal journey, it does not necessarily have to be a lonely one. In therapy, I am committed to meet you where you are and build at your pace. “Decolonizing therapy” should not be a buzz phrase. It is an ongoing action between therapist and client to bring about the radical acceptance that you’ve deserved since childhood. While some therapists are too focused on outcomes by the numbers, I value our therapeutic relationship because systems of oppression, like capitalism and cisgenderism, can be challenging to overcome without support.

In a westernized society that refuses to acknowledge we exist, our existence is always resistance. I’m here to listen AND rally with you because healing from trauma, depression, and anxiety is a radical act of self-love to bring about the change we want to experience in ourselves, families, and the world.

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