Carol Lee is a licensed professional counselor in Taiwan and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) in the United States. She specializes in supporting individuals navigating anxiety, depression, and trauma, and brings a systemic perspective to couples counseling.
Having worked with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds in both the United States and Taiwan, she is attuned to the ways culture, identity, and relationships shape each person's experiences and therapeutic journey. Her approach is integrative, drawing from attachment-informed, somatic, systemic, and cognitive behavioral perspectives to support clients in building emotional resilience, deepening self-awareness, and navigating life's challenges with greater flexibility and self-compassion.
Licensed Counseling Psychologist (Taiwan)
Carol Lee 李佩華
Languages
Mandarin · English · Cantonese
Education & Licensure
M.A., Counseling Psychology, George Fox University, Oregon, USA
美國奧勒岡州 George Fox University 諮商心理學碩士
Licensed Counseling Psychologist, Taiwan — No. 000982 (active)
台灣諮商心理師——證號：諮心字第000982
National Certified Counselor (NCC), USA — No. 77149 (active)
美國國家認證諮商師（NCC）——編號：77149
On Living Across Worlds
The world has become remarkably small.
If you have lived in more than one place, from the outside, you seem to adapt and fit in skillfully. But inside, something moves more slowly: a quiet, internal order you rarely notice, because it existed long before you had words for it.
It begins in our families.
Long before we recognize the influence of culture, we learn what relationships feel like. What closeness means. How conflict is handled. Whether emotions are spoken or carried in silence. What is expected of us. What makes us worthy. What it means to belong.
These are not simply ideas. They become the invisible framework through which we experience life. We don't usually question them because they feel less like beliefs and more like reality itself.
Sometimes it takes living across cultures to realize that what once felt like reality was, in fact, one way of making sense of the world.
Suddenly, things that once seemed obvious no longer are. You discover that another family may express love differently. Another culture may understand independence, responsibility, respect, or success through an entirely different lens. The more worlds you encounter, the more you begin to see that human beings do not simply inherit traditions—we inherit ways of making meaning.
My own experiences of living across cultures have shaped the questions I bring into the therapy room, though not because I assume anyone else's story resembles mine. Rather, they have reminded me that every person lives within an internal world that has its own logic. Every belief, every way of relating, every expectation about oneself and others has a history. It has been shaped by families, relationships, communities, losses, cultures, and countless experiences that often remain outside our awareness.
This is what continues to inspire my work.
Not understanding people through cultural categories, or even diagnostic labels, but becoming curious about how each person has come to construct their world of meaning.
Therapy, to me, is not about replacing one worldview with another. It is about creating enough space to understand the one you already inhabit. Sometimes that understanding allows old patterns to soften. Sometimes it helps different parts of your experience become more connected. Sometimes it simply allows you to see yourself with greater clarity and compassion.
Whatever your story, I hope this can be a place where your experiences don't have to fit neatly into a category before they can be understood.
~ Carol Lee