My clinical interests include working with diverse ethnic and sexual minorities, including college students with a wide range of mental health issues, particularly substance abuse and substance dependence. I am currently the Program Coordinator for the Lambda Center and Access to Recovery Programs at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington (PIW). PIW is a privately owned inpatient/outpatient facility providing psychological treatment to residents of the greater District of Columbia area. The Lambda Center provides psychological, substance abuse, and vocational counseling to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the inpatient or outpatient programs, and the Access to Recovery program provides similar services to heterosexual individuals. I have gained impeccable training in a variety of therapeutic modalities, including individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy.
To further my clinical interests, I have accepted a position as an Intern at the Asian American Health Initiative, assuming a leadership role in the development of a mental health program for the agency.
Congruent to my clinical interests, my dissertation research involves examining psychological help seeking intentions and behaviors of Asian American and Caucasian college students. The study will investigate how demographic variables, psychological symptoms, enculturation, stigma, professional psychological help seeking attitudes, and conceptualization of psychological problems are related to intentions to seek counseling and actual help seeking behavior. Differences, or lack thereof between Asian American and Caucasian students in predictor and outcome variables will be examined. The chair of my dissertation committee is my academic advisor, Dr. Jerome Short.
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