Gloria A. Huh, Ph.D.
PSYCHOLOGIST & COACH
Fighting with your parents is keeping you from getting what you want.
Unlearn inherited expectations you got from your Asian parents, reclaim your voice, and show up more fully in the relationships that matter.
Take this assessment to see if intergenerational trauma coaching is right for you
We attached and learned from traumatized people in trauma.
Our Asian parents demand respect from us but we question why it’s not a two-way street.
So we try to stand up for ourselves, draw boundaries and prove ourselves but to no avail.
If you don’t want to cut your parents off and are trying to heal the relationship,
That’s where I come in.
You’ve been working hard to fix yourself. But you were never the problem.
You learned how to read the room before reading yourself. How to become acceptable before becoming known. How to hide the parts of you that felt too emotional, too complicated, too cultural, or simply too much.
These adaptations helped you stay connected and survive within your family. But now they may be keeping you from transforming your relationship with your parents and feeling peace and confidence to be unapologetically yourself.
You don’t need to become someone better. You need to uncover who you were before you learned to disappear.
I help Asian American adults unlearn who they were told to be, heal what they inherited, and build relationships rooted in authenticity, safety, and repair.
Become more of yourself–not more acceptable to family and cultural expectations that don’t serve your bicultural identity.
COACHING
For Asian American adults
Repair the relationship without abandoning yourself
You love your parents—or want to—but criticism, guilt, and old family roles keep pulling you into the same painful conflicts.
This work helps you understand what you inherited, find your voice, and set boundaries that protect you without automatically cutting off the relationship. You’ll learn to relate to your parents as the adult you are now—not the child still fighting to be understood.
“Working with Gloria as a coach led to the biggest mental health breakthroughs I’ve ever had—and I’ve had three different therapists since I was 22. The first big revelation came just in the second session, and if we left it there that would’ve already been a game changer for me. Gloria always reminds me that I have to feel safe first. She’s very real. The whole process felt like talking to a big sister.
By our fourth session, communicating with my parents had become more peaceful. I didn’t realize it, until Gloria pointed it out. I wondered if I could actually heal my relationship with my parents the week or two before.
In just a few sessions, I’ve been able to make some huge shifts in how I show up, understand myself, and how I communicate with others.
I think Asian Americans who want to heal a strained relationship with their parents could gain a lot from working with her because she understands that complexity personally and deeply.”
-JustineWhy Asian American adults?
I came to understand that the work I had done to repair my relationship with my own parents required the same root-level excavation: uncovering inherited shame, questioning who I had learned to be, and reclaiming the parts of myself I had hidden to stay connected.
As a second-generation Korean American who has lived this work—and experienced the freedom it can create—I’m especially equipped to help other Asian American adults repair relationships with critical parents without abandoning themselves or writing off their families.
The root work is to unlearn who we were told to be so we can show up fully in how we care, heal, and connect. And when that happens, we change not only individual lives, but what healing looks like and whom it makes room for.