Psychotherapy for professionals with demanding lives and complex identities
Clarity in Perception. Insight in Action.
Even when life looks successful, you may feel disconnected from what you want or divided by competing expectations. I offer depth-oriented, culturally and sociopolitically attuned psychotherapy to help you understand the patterns and forces shaping your experience—and make choices that feel more fully your own.
Based in New York City Telehealth in NY, CA, HI
When achievement is not the whole story
You may know how to exceed standards, solve difficult problems, and turn quickly to the next challenge. Yet the qualities that support achievement do not always bring fulfillment or a grounded sense of self.
You might find yourself caught in perfectionism and overwork, struggling in relationships, or quietly disconnected from yourself and others—even when life appears successful from the outside. For people living across multiple cultures and communities, these concerns can also involve belonging, recognition, and competing values or expectations.
Psychotherapy offers a nonjudgmental space to understand the forces that have shaped you and what remains within your power to change. Through compassionate self-inquiry, you can reconsider inherited ideas about who you are and what should matter most—and move forward more authentically, with a clearer sense of purpose.
Deeper understanding can create different choices
My approach is active, collaborative, and tailored to the individual. In a steady therapeutic relationship, we focus on what is happening now while also looking beneath the surface—at recurring patterns, emotional conflicts, formative experiences, and implicit meanings. Working primarily from a psychodynamic perspective while integrating other clinical approaches, we examine how the past continues to circulate through your thoughts, feelings, and actions. I also attend closely to how your inner life and personal history take shape within culture, social context, and larger systems of belief and power.
This work can be emotionally challenging, but it can also be transformative. As insight deepens, new possibilities emerge: making more deliberate choices, building more satisfying relationships, and living with greater openness and vitality.
Who I work with
I work with adults who are motivated to learn more about themselves. Many are professionals balancing demanding careers and complex identities in fields such as medicine, law, academia, public service, the creative arts, and technology.
I have specialized experience working with people of the Global Majority, including those navigating issues of community, cultural identity, and racialization and racism-related stress. My practice is also LGBTQ+ affirming and welcomes clients from all sexual orientations and gender identities.
You may be seeking support during a career or life transition, trying to understand a new or changing relationship, or exploring concerns involving gender, sexuality, and intimacy. You may also be contending with anxiety or depression, persistent self-criticism, people-pleasing, imposter feelings, or uncertainty about what you want next.
Why work with me?
To personalize psychotherapy for each client, I integrate various schools of psychotherapeutic, intellectual, and sociopolitical thought. I do not rely on a formula or one-size-fits-all strategy. Instead, I approach each therapeutic relationship with openness and compassion, listening deeply to each person’s lived experience and unique ways of being in the world.
As someone with a varied and unconventional background, I appreciate working with clients from diverse walks of life. I am interested in the intersections of culture, gender, race, sexual orientation, and social class. I find inspiration in witnessing people develop their strengths and talents and cultivate their own sense of beauty and freedom. I bring insight, intellect, and a sense of humor to the work, qualities that can help make the challenging parts of self-discovery more approachable.
I am board-certified in Counseling Psychology and licensed to practice in New York, California, and Hawaiʻi. My expertise is in insight-oriented, culturally and sociopolitically responsive individual psychotherapy for professionals navigating complex identities, relationships, and life transitions.
Scholarship & Teaching
Alongside my independent practice, I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pace University, where my interdisciplinary research examines how racialization and systems of power become embedded in psychological life, shaping identity, relationships, and possibilities for well-being.
My scholarship brings critical ethnic studies and psychoanalytic thought into conversation with empirical psychology. Much of my work centers Asian American and intersectional experiences, examining both the harms of stigma and the conditions that enable people to resist its effects and flourish.
My teaching is guided by a transformative education framework that situates psychological health and healing within cultural and sociopolitical contexts. I have taught courses in ethics, history and systems of psychology, Asian American studies, and public health, and have provided clinical supervision to graduate students in health service psychology. Across these roles, I encourage students to think critically about the profession and contribute to more equitable and liberatory forms of care.
Professional Endorsements
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Andy is exceptional in helping people make sense of what is happening within and outside of themselves so they can find a direction forward in their lives.
David Nguyen, PhD - Licensed Psychologist and Instructor in Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Choi brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his therapeutic approach, in particular his expertise in culturally responsive and LGBTQ-affirming care.
Sabrina Liu, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychology and Licensed Psychologist, California State University, San Marcos
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He is a respected scholar and practitioner in his areas of expertise, providing compassionate, evidence-based services that are integrative of clients' personal and cultural background and tailored to their specific needs.
Alexander Malik Khaddouma, PhD, ABPP - Board Certified Psychologist, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Dr. Choi is kind, compassionate, understanding, and an advocate for social justice. His intellect combined with these qualities make him an outstanding clinician, colleague, and friend.
Oscar Widales-Benitez, PhD, NCSP - Licensed Psychologist, Lucine Center for Trauma and Grief
Ready to begin?
Investing in your psychological health can be among the most rewarding and life-changing decisions you make. I am committed to helping you navigate new pathways toward greater clarity, personal freedom, and a life that feels more fully your own.