Transform Your Life Through Neuroscience-Backed Trauma Therapy

Nervous system repair for high-achieving professionals and neurodivergent individuals experiencing trauma-activated anxiety and burnout in New York, New Jersey, and beyond

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Therapy in English & Cantonese

(廣東話)

✓ Asian American-Owned Practice

✓ Insurance Accepted

✓ Licensed in NY & NJ.

✓ Neurodivergent-Affirming

✓ 25 + Years Experience

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You Look Fine When You Don’t Feel Fine.

You are highly capable. You lead teams, build careers, care for families, and carry responsibility well.

Yet internally, you are exhausted and know you are not fine.

Maybe You’re Experiencing:

Trauma-activated anxiety

that won’t turn off, no matter how much you take care yourself.

Nervous system burnout

from staying in constant alert mode

Hyper-vigilance

that makes you feel unsafe even when you’re safe

Emotional Exhaustion

from being the “only one” o who holds everyone else together

Intrusive thoughts

about yourself, loved ones, work, and the world around you

Intergenerational pattern

you promised yourself you’d break but can’t seem to shake

These are not personal failures.

They are adaptive patterns shaped by experience.


At Alcyon, I use the structural “Body, System, Mind” approach to facilitate the sustainable change: 

A Structured Path to Sustainable Change

Regulation (Body)

We begin with your nervous system.

Many high-functioning adults are living in constant activation  even when life looks stable from the outside.

Before we analyze or optimize, we help your body feel safer.

We reduce chronic anxiety, soften hypervigilance, and build the capacity to rest without losing control.

Stability is not a luxury.
It is the foundation.

Systemic Clarity (System)

We explore the patterns that shaped you.

Family expectations. Cultural pressures. Intergenerational experiences. Invisible loyalties.

Often what feels like a personal flaw is an adaptation to something larger.

When you understand the system you come from, self-blame begins to loosen.

With clarity comes choice.

Cognitive Integration (Mind)

We refine how you relate to your thoughts.

Once steadiness increases, we examine the beliefs that quietly drive your decisions — perfectionism, productivity-based identity, fear of falling behind, inherited narratives about worth.

Insight becomes transformative when your nervous system is ready for it.

Alignment replaces pressure.

We work both bottom-up and top-down to help build steadiness, clarity, and sustainable change.  

When your internal system stabilizes, your mind gets clearer, as does your decision-making. You will find the invisible boundaries between yourself and the negative. Boundaries strengthen, energy reorganizes, and transformation follows stability. 

At Alcyon, I work with:

  • Immigrant or adult children of immigrant families

  • Caregiver or parent (parent-to-be)

  • Professional, organizational leader/executive, clinician

  • Individual with late diagnosed ADHD or Level 1 ASD

  • Sensitive to injustice, instability, and threat

  • Tired of being told to “just relax” or “think differently”

who may feel constantly on edge, overwhelmed or unable to truly rest, even when things are “fine”.

Space for Healing and Growth

Alcyon is your retreat from the everyday hustle, offering a nurturing environment for personal healing and development. We provide integrative mental health treatment, transformative workshops, and trainings for clients and clinicians alike.

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Therapy
Therapy
Work with Me
Work with Me

Virtual mental health service for trauma healing, maternal wellness, chronic pain/illness, and more. Covered by insurance.

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Trainings
Trainings

In person and virtual workshops and training programs designed for both individuals and clinicians. Discover unique healing practices like somatic therapy, family constellation, and trauma-informed coaching.

Heal Your Past: Integrative Family Systemic Constellations Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®

In-person and Virtual training are open for registration

Join Alcyon for the Healing Transgenerational Trauma through the Integration of Somatic Experiencing® and Family Systemic Constellations Therapy, a powerful approach to uncovering pathways to healing that address transgenerational and relational traumas. We are delighted to welcome Efu Nyaki, an Internationally renowned trauma healing expert and author who will be leading this training.


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What Our Clients Say

  • “Adopted into an Asian culture where saving face was important, I learned to hide and ignore my problems. I grew up feeling isolated, unwanted and unloved. As an adult, I was diagnosed with severe chronic illness. Having unbearable pain on a daily basis I fell into a deep depression and was in a very dark emotional place. My sessions with my therapist, Manna Chan were life changing. She made therapy a warm, nurturing and enjoyable experience. Not only did she transform my life, she may have saved my life.”

    M.Lee, Cient

  • “Thank you for helping me navigate transition to a new job and processing my past traumas so I can live a more fulfilling life.”

    N.Y., Client

  • “I feel like Manna had done me tremendous good - when we started, I think like I was in a genuine crisis, and you've really helped me manage things better and process my grief.

    T. J, Client

  • “I have learned so much from Manna and I am very thankful for all the time and care she put into helping me to develop my clinical skills.”

    R.E, Clinician

  • My world truly did collapse. But I pulled through. Your lesson and teaching on coping gave me the strength to do it. You gave me the confidence to believe in myself and my ability to overcome it. You are a REAL superhero. Don’t forget that.

    R.T, Client

  • “I feel like Manna had done me tremendous good - when we started, I think like I was in a genuine crisis, and you've really helped me manage things better and process my grief."em

    M.W, Client

  • " I really appreciate Manna's support and care. She helped me overcome my depression and thus live my life to the fullest."

    H, Choi, Client

  • "It has been a very unforgettable work experience that I had with you. I really appreciate your kindness, patience, and leadership tat I have changed so much that I would recognize myself."

    S.C, Clinician

  • "You are a great mentor!"

    Kathy, Clinican

  • "I will never be able to sufficently articulate how much of an impact (Manna) has made in my life.

    D.A, Client

  • "YOU are the best bc you introduced me to Family Constellations & SE, & it changed my life. Literally. "

    Hana Lee, Client

Get started with Alcyon, today.

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