My background is in neuroscience and public health. I've spent years learning about how people’s choices impact their quality of life, and how much harder it becomes to make good decisions once a crisis is underway or cognitive decline has begun. I believe clarity is something you can give the people you love, deliberately and ahead of time, rather than something they have to piece together after you're gone.

I named this practice Gold Mountain Collective after my own family's story. Generations of Chinese immigrants have long referred to California as Gum Saan, or ‘Gold Mountain’, as a nod to this place as a land of opportunity. After my Korean and Vietnamese parents immigrated to the Bay Area, my father changed our surname to a phonetic rendering of Gum Saan as part of a promise to create and hand down a better life for future generations. This work carries that same spirit: taking ownership of your story and sharing it with your loved ones, rather than leaving it to chance.

I work with people who are established in their lives, thinking ahead to the next chapter, and are often already the ones who've quietly held their families together through a parent's illness or decline. This is for you if you'd rather have the harder conversations on your own terms, while there is still time to have them with care.