Asian American Therapist in Manhattan | Dr. Danny Liu, Psy.D.
Therapy for high-achieving professionals navigating anxiety, overthinking, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and the impact of emotionally immature parents.
Welcome. I’m Danny Liu, a licensed clinical psychologist in Manhattan who works closely with Asian American professionals navigating both the pressures of high-achieving careers and the lasting impact of strict, demanding, or emotionally distant parents. Many of my NYC clients work in tech, finance, or leadership roles and find themselves caught in patterns of overthinking, self-doubt, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or people-pleasing. My approach helps you understand how these patterns formed—and together we reshape them into healthier, more grounded ways of thinking, relating, and making decisions.
If you’re in New York and want to work with me in person or virtually, you can learn more about my mission and background: www.drdannyliu.com
Creating space to reflect and heal
I work with you to deepen your understanding of the psychology that maintains your chronic frustrations and relationship issues.
Feeling unfulfilled even though you’ve seemingly checked off all of your goals on paper?
Extreme mental challenges do not always manifest as a clinical depression diagnosis. Sometimes we just need to speak with someone who understands your lived experiences and challenges.
Clinical Areas of Focus
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You may find yourself constantly chasing the next step on the corporate ladder, achieving in order to prove your worth, and constantly managing how you’re perceived while balancing the weight of expectations from your family.
But over time, this can lead to a deep sense of exhaustion, disconnection, and apathy from your work, your relationships, even yourself. Burnout doesn’t always look like a sudden collapse; sometimes it’s a slow loss of joy, motivation, and purpose.
Areas where I can support:
Navigating the push and pull of what society, culture, and others tell us/expect us to be doing, versus pursuing what you find meaningful and fulfilling.
Working through unconscious guilt and beliefs holding you back in your career.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Processing and navigating work pressures, systematic racism and discrimination at work place.
Lack of fulfillment in the corporate world.
Identity and Self-Worth outside productivity and corporate world.
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Do you find yourself constantly pleasing people and putting others needs before your own? Do you keep encountering the same dating issues and patterns, like chasing after emotionally unavailable people?
In many moments of the journey of life, we have to stop and reflect in order to ultimately get to where we want to be. I provide a space to help address old relational wounds and current relationship frustrations.
Areas where I specialize in:
Developing different perspectives towards managing interpersonal relationships.
Values, setting healthy boundaries and developing effective relationship communication skills.
Constantly feeling like a burden to others, feelings of deep shame.
Attachment style and secure dating. Dating burnout.
Managing loneliness.
Root issues associated with people pleasing.
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Growing up with immigrant parents that have grown up with a culture different than your own leads to its own distinct set of challenges, ranging from self identity development issues to anxiety and depression to work through later in life as adults.
Areas where I specialize in:
Navigating the push and pull of what society, culture, and others tell us/expect us to be doing, versus pursuing what you find meaningful and fulfilling.
Working through Filial Guilt.
Managing cultural and intergenerational conflicts with parents
Healing from emotionally unavailable parents/narcissistic parents
Intergenerational Trauma
Available for in person 1-on-1 sessions
37 W 26th St.
New York, NY 10010
Based in Manhattan, I am a firm believer in offering my clients different therapy formats that work best for your convenience and preferences. For those wishing to make a direct connection or new to therapy, I can conduct our sessions in person. Some things about the therapy process can only truly be understood and unpacked in an in person setting, which is free of distractions and delays from digital interaction.
Talking in person can build a more direct and personal connection to allow for more thorough and detailed assessments as we start your healing journey.
But I understand not everyone can meet in person, so I also offer virtual therapy sessions.
Additional Specialties
· Guilt/Shame
· Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
· Chronic Indecision/People Pleasing
· Parenting Stress and Coaching
· ADHD/ASD Support
· Fear of Failure
· Dating and Attachment
· Lack of Purpose/Fulfillment
These are some additional areas that I specialize in but if you have any other issues you’d like to work on, I can help you explore and develop solutions for any areas of your life for which you seek support.
Affiliations
Press
Corresponding to the Monterey Park Tragedy, I am grateful to ABC News Sacramento to be interviewed in their segment on raising awareness of the barriers for those in the AAPI community seeking mental health support, & to provide resources so that people can begin to heal.