Arthur Sun, LCSW

Arthur Sun is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with five years of clinical experience in California. They combine professional training and lived experience to support people facing mental health concerns, questions of identity, life transitions, or consequential decisions. Arthur aims to be radically honest and unbearably kind while helping clients move toward the changes they want to make.

Drawing on multiple identities - queer, transgender, Taiwanese-American, and autistic - Arthur integrates personal perspective with clinical practice to tailor each course of therapy. That tailoring can lean toward somatic work, philosophical reflection, skills-based interventions, or a blend chosen to meet a person where they are. Therapy also attends to the larger social forces that shape options and wellbeing, rather than treating symptoms in isolation.

Arthur is trained and practiced primarily in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a skills-oriented approach related to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This DBT-informed foundation supports building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness alongside other clinical methods as appropriate.

Specialties include stress, anxiety, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression, with additional focus areas such as autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality, family problems, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, life purpose, mood disorders, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, post-traumatic stress, sexuality, and social anxiety and phobia. Arthur's long-term aim as a therapist is to equip people so well that the therapeutic relationship can end amicably and healthily, reflecting increased autonomy and resilience. Arthur invites people who have been underserved or misunderstood by mainstream institutions to explore therapy together.