Ethan Shen

Ethan Shen (ze/hir/hirs) is a queer and nonbinary Asian American who is currently pursuing a master’s in Counseling Psychology at the University of San Francisco.

While Ethan’s graduate school training has focused on western models of psychotherapy, ze is working to address trauma through a liberational framework that uplifts marginalized voices. Part of this work includes acknowledging the effects that colonization, imperialism, capitalism, and other supremacist structures have on the wellbeing of all people.

Ethan is a pre-licensed therapist, but ze also sees hirself as a child of a working class mother, a second generation immigrant, an avid video gamer, a Bay Area transplant from Texas, a sibling, a friend, and a survivor of complex and intergenerational trauma.

Ze is also a recovering perfectionist and people pleaser; a boundaries advocate; a person of color who is learning to decolonize therapy; and a seeker of liberation through community, self-love, and joy. Ze is an imperfect person and believes that the process of “becoming” is a lifelong endeavor.

Ethan is excited and honored to help others unfold, examine, and lovingly hold the many nuanced and shifting layers that make us all beautiful, important, and human.