Meet Peggy Loo, PhD

How would you describe your approach to therapy?

I really enjoy working with high achieving professionals, leaders, and new parents who do a lot but don’t get support in their own emotional growth and wellbeing. As a psychologist passionate about mental health literacy, I teach about how your mood, trauma, or whatever skills we’re trying works, so you learn and feel empowered over time. I’d describe myself as collaborative, deliberately hopeful, and highly conversational in session. I love to laugh with my patients, and I balance encouragement, self-discovery, and gentle challenge.

I’ll help you make insightful connections and foster actionable change so ah-ha moments and trying something different go hand in hand. We can tackle what you’ve been struggling with together so you don’t have to figure it out alone. We’ll unpack relationship patterns and blind spots with curiosity and compassion, as I believe life is meant to be lived in connection and community - but that’s super hard in the day to day, especially if you’ve been hurt and learned to protect yourself. Sometimes I'll guide you through processing unresolved traumas, especially if you feel held back by something in the past. One of the things I do a lot is slow you down and help you be present with yourself in a fast paced world - so you can notice your patterns, feelings, and what’s happening in your body. Then we’ll use that awareness and knowledge to help you grow.

I get that it’s hard to imagine our lives any different than what we’ve gotten used to. It often takes someone else to see what’s possible, and even borrow hope until you start to see it too. My hope for therapy with you may start with symptom relief and skill building but goes beyond that - I want you to start flourishing. Because when we’re doing well, it pours out into the people and world around you.

I can help you with

• Anger

• ADHD (e.g., adult diagnosis adjustment, neuroaffirming strategies for emotion regulation and relationships)

• Anxiety (e.g., generalized anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety)

• Egg freezing

• Emotion regulation

• Grief (e.g., bereavement, lost opportunities, late diagnoses)

• Infertility and miscarriage

• Interpersonal dynamics (e.g., family relationships, friendships, coworkers)

• Multicultural identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, bicultural, 2nd gen, matrescence, neurotype, and religion/spirituality)

• Parenting stress

• Perfectionism

• Pregnancy and postpartum (e.g., prenatal attachment, postpartum mood, matrescence)

• Relationship stress (e.g., interracial relationships, marital dynamics, separation or divorce)

• Trauma (e.g., childhood emotional abuse and neglect, complex/generational trauma, racial or spiritual trauma)

• Work stress and burnout (e.g., physicians in high-intensity specialties, senior leadership, managers, PhD students)

My approach to identity and diversity as a therapist

I treat who you are with respect, acceptance, and care. I believe what makes you, you (your race, spiritual identity, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, neurotype, etc) is wonderful and fundamentally shapes your life experiences - so it’s a key thread I listen for in all of your stories.

I’m a second-generation Taiwanese American therapist, which means I was born and raised in the US by immigrant parents who were born and raised in Taiwan. I’m interested in the unique challenges of the immigrant family experience and bicultural identity - and how it shapes the way you feel about yourself and others. I'll always be open to talking about your feelings about your identity, whether they’re positive or complex - and the ways that can get even more complicated in any relationship with someone that’s pretty different than yourself. A fun fact: my dissertation research was on interracial romantic relationships, so I have a soft spot for interracial partners.

In addition to being invested in BIPOC mental health, I enjoy helping people (re)discover the strengths and meaning that can be found in their neurodivergent or spiritual identities - especially if they have experienced shame, hurt, or trauma in this part of themselves.

As someone dedicated to multicultural and liberation psychology, I believe naming and healing from oppression is an important part of mental health, and something I’ll talk about openly in session. My hope is that you feel comfortable to share and be your whole self with me, knowing that I'm ready to listen, affirm, and dive in.

What types of therapy do you use?

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

• Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT)

• Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

• Multicultural Therapy

• Psychodynamic Therapy

• Relational Cultural Therapy

• Somatic Therapy

• Trauma Therapy

What’s your session fee and do you accept insurance?

I am an out of network provider and my fee ranges from $400-425/session. As a psychologist committed to equitable access to therapy, I have a small number of sliding scale spots that you can ask about.

Our practice has partnered with Mentaya - a service that can check what out of network insurance benefits you have for therapy and provide an immediate estimate. Check here.

License Info & Professional Affiliations

• New York 023109

• New Jersey 35SI00785200

• NPI: 1508154352

• American Psychological Association, Member

• NYC CBT Association, Member

• Asian American Psychological Association, Member

• SPEAK, Advisory Board

• Women’s Mental Health Consortium, Member