Psychotherapy for professionals with demanding lives and complex identities
Board-Certified Psychologist · Scholar · Educator
You can be accomplished and still feel disconnected from who you are and what you want. I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy attentive to culture and social context, helping you understand what is shaping your life and make choices that feel more fully your own.
Based in New York City · Telehealth in NY, CA, and 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. But perhaps achievement has not brought the grounded sense of self or lasting fulfillment you hoped for.
You might be caught in perfectionism and overwork, struggling in relationships, or unable to shake a vague but persistent sense that something isn’t working—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 what has shaped you and what remains within your power to change. This work can help you reconsider inherited ideas about who you are and what should matter, so your priorities become clearer and your decisions feel more authentic and deliberate.
Deeper understanding can lead to different choices
My clinical approach is active and collaborative. Drawing on psychodynamic thought, we attend to what is happening now and look beneath the surface at recurring conflicts, formative experiences, and meanings you may not yet have put into words. The aim is to understand the patterns structuring your life so you can recognize and act on more possibilities.
I also consider how your inner life and personal history are intertwined with culture and larger systems of belief and power. Our conversations are guided by your experience and values rather than by a preassigned explanation of what your difficulties mean.
This process of self-discovery can be challenging but also transformative. Over time, you may feel more present, build more satisfying relationships, and live with greater openness and vitality.
Who I work with
I work with adults who want to know themselves more fully and examine the motivations and patterns shaping their lives. Many of my clients 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 color and Indigenous people—sometimes described collectively as the Global Majority—who often navigate questions of cultural identity and belonging, including the effects of racialization and racism-related stress. My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and welcomes people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
You may be considering psychotherapy during a transition or difficult decision, after a change in a relationship, or because anxiety, depression, or persistent self-criticism has become difficult to ignore.
Why work with me?
I am board-certified in counseling psychology and licensed as a psychologist in New York, California, and Hawaiʻi. My expertise is culturally responsive psychodynamic psychotherapy for professionals examining how identity, relationships, and broader social structures shape their lives.
Rather than relying on a formula or one-size-fits-all strategy, I draw from a range of clinical, intellectual, and critical traditions. I approach each therapeutic relationship with openness and compassion, listening closely to each person’s lived experience and particular ways of being in the world.
As someone with a varied and unconventional background, I value working with clients whose lives have taken different paths. 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 while cultivating their own sense of beauty and freedom. My style is perceptive and intellectually engaged, with a sense of humor that can make difficult parts of psychotherapy more approachable.
Scholarship & Teaching
Alongside my practice, I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pace University. My research examines how racialization and systems of power become part of psychological life, including how people understand themselves and relate to others.
Bringing critical ethnic studies and psychoanalytic thought into conversation with empirical psychology, my scholarship focuses largely on Asian American and intersectional experiences. I examine both the harms of stigma and the conditions that support agency and flourishing.
My teaching and clinical supervision similarly situate psychological health within cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts, with the aim of advancing more equitable 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 and colleague.
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.