Biography
I am a Bay Area licensed clinical psychologist with years of experience in the mental health field. My practice serves people who are struggling with seeing or hearing things that others don't hear or see as well as people who are bothered by thoughts that they find unusual or that others have said are unusual.
As a Chinese-American female psychologist, I am also passionate about addressing the mental health struggles of BIPOC and other underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. I have dedicated training, knowledge, and experience adapting and individualizing evidence-based treatments for these communities so that they can have similar opportunities to access and participate in the journey of healing.
In addition to my private practice, I am employed at Click Therapeutics, Inc., a biotech company that develops and commercializes software as a prescription medical treatment for people with unmet medical and psychological needs. My role is to assist in the development and research of digital therapeutics for Schizophrenia and other severe mental illness projects. Previously, I worked as a clinical psychologist at the inpatient psychiatric units at Stanford Health Care and an Assistant Clinical Professor (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine where I provided individual and group psychotherapy for people struggling with mood problems and psychosis as well as trained the next generation of healthcare providers. I also worked as an assistant professor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where I taught courses and seminars related to the treatment of severe mental illness and diversity to doctoral level psychology students and medical students, supervised predoctoral psychology interns at an APA-accredited program, and developed an interprofessional education (IPE) program between medical and doctoral psychology students to provide preventative care for women residing at a homeless shelter in Northern Philadelphia.
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