Born in Thailand to a family of Vietnamese war refugees and raised in a small suburb in Hillsboro, Oregon, I came from people who had to rebuild a life from nothing. This is perhaps the biggest reason why I have never been able to idly sit by when I see suffering that I believe can be alleviated.

I studied biology and philosophy at the University of Portland which I was lucky to attend after achieving a full-ride scholarship from the Ford Family Foundation. This unique combination set me up perfectly for psychiatry as one discipline asks how the mind breaks, while the other posits what a good life requires. I carried these questions into medical school at Loma Linda University, and then into residency, first at Charles R. Drew University-UCLA, and then later at Oklahoma State University after a personal-family emergency asked me to move.

By the time I finished training and moved back to the west coast, I had worked inside nearly every kind of setting psychiatry has to offer: psychiatric hospitals at UCLA, Oklahoma State, and across LA County, VA hospitals in Long Beach and Tulsa treating veterans, women's mental health clinics, and addiction treatment programs. All the while, I was navigating a transfer of residencies across the country, a long-distance relationship, and family emergencies. I experienced firsthand the thing I now specialize in treating: professional burnout. I understand what it is to be exhausted by a system that measures your worth in RVUs and chart-closure times, and to watch talented, caring clinicians and professionals — especially women — silently suffer under the pressure of it all.

I started JP Concierge Psychiatry because I got tired of bureaucratic hospital administrations telling doctors how to practice medicine. I wanted to build the kind of care I once needed myself: unhurried, private, and built around the actual person in front of me.

Practice philosophy

JP Concierge Psychiatry is, to my knowledge, the only mental health practice in Los Angeles offering true flexibility across in-home, in-office, and telehealth visits, all under one practice. Whether you're a new mother who can't leave your home, a physician who only has twenty minutes between shifts and needs to make it to count, or someone who simply wants the privacy of being seen in your own space, the format of care that I created here at JP Concierge Psychiatry adapts around your life to best serve you.

Why In-Home Visits Are Different

The idea for this practice actually started somewhere unexpected: a street psychiatry rotation where we walked into homeless encampments on Skid Row to deliver medications and check on patients with severe mental illness who would never otherwise make it into a clinic. Sitting with someone in their tent, seeing exactly how they were living day to day, taught me more about their illness in ten minutes than a chart ever could. I remember thinking, why don't we do this for everyone else?

An in-home visit is more than just convenience, it's a different quality of clinical information entirely. A fifteen-minute conversation in an office tells me what a patient chooses to share, but walking into their home tells me the rest.

I can see it in the details most people never think to mention like the number of empty beer bottles quietly stacking up in the garage, the dishes piled on the counter, which often tell me exactly how far a depressive episode has progressed before someone found the energy to ask for help. I do real medication reconciliation by looking in the actual medicine cabinet, observing for adverse drug interactions, catching discrepancies, expired prescriptions, and unspoken non-adherence that get missed in a typical visit.

In an age where so much of connection has been lost to screens, sitting with someone in the space where they actually live builds a different kind of connection. For busy professionals especially, it also means privacy: no waiting room, no chance of being seen walking into a psychiatrist's office, just care that comes to you.

If in-home visits aren't your thing, we also offer in-office and telehealth appointments, so you can choose whatever setting lets you show up as your authentic self.

As a cash-pay practice, I've made a deliberate choice to step outside insurance-driven medicine. That means longer visits, real continuity, and treatment decisions made between us, and not by a utilization review team.