Asians Do Therapy
Conversations with Asians and Asian Americans on both sides of the couch.
Hosted by Yin J. Li, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Email: asiansdotherapy@gmail.com
Episodes
18 episodes
erin Khuê Ninh: Model Child / Model Minority
In this conversation, I speak with erin Khuê Ninh.erin has some really important ideas about the Asian immigrant family that are a bit confronting and perhaps truth telling. She argues that the Asian immigrant family is a form of a...
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Episode 17
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37:15
Sahaj Kaur Kohli. The Culture Broker
New podcast episode!In this conversation, I speak with Sahaj Kaur Kohli.We chat about:the re-authoring of her story through writing her bookher hopes and fears surrounding its releasebeing a cultural...
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Episode 16
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58:51
J.S. Park. The Therapriest
In this conversation, I speak with J.S. Park. His posts and words have, at times, moved me to tears. It was such a pleasure to speak with him about work, life, death, birth, grief and bulgogi! More specifically, w...
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Episode 15
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43:24
Michelle MiJung Kim. Silence and Speaking
In this conversation, I speak to Michelle MiJung Kim. She is a queer Korean American immigrant woman writer, speaker, activist, and entrepreneur. She the author of the award winning,
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Episode 14
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56:57
Dhwani Shah, MD. What is Psychoanalysis?
In this conversation, I speak with Dhwani Shah, MD (he/him) who is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Some highlights of our conversation:what psychoanalysis is and is not; some realities and misconceptions of it...
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Episode 13
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52:19
Vickie Ya-Rong Chang, PhD. Healing the Earth of Your Body.
In this episode, I speak with Vickie Ya-Rong Chang (she/her). I got connected to Vickie because I wanted to speak to a clinician who had been working with clients and had expertise on climate anxiety and despair. Th...
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Episode 12
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50:39
Rosa Lim, PhD. Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating.
In this episode, I speak with Rosa Lim (she/her) who is a clinical psychologist based in NYC.We cover a lot in 45 minutes. Rosa and I talk about: · the difference between eating disorders and disorde...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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44:59
Jenny Tzu-Mei Wang, PhD. Permission to Come Home Together
In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Jenny Tzu-Mei Wang (she/hers) about her new book, Permission to Come Home. Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans. Some of what we talk about in this conversation:How the book...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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56:56
Valerie Yeo, PsyD. Religious Trauma and the Asian American Experience
In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Valerie Yeo (she/her), a psychologist who specializes in religious and racial trauma based in Portland, Oregon.Our discussion is within the context of the Evangelical church. Some of what we dis...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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44:42
Linda Thai, LMSW. Unnameable Losses of Adult Children of Refugees
In this conversation, I speak with Linda Thai (she/hers). Linda is a Vietnamese Australian trauma and somatic therapist currently living in Alaska. I was very intrigued by Linda's work. She is writing and researching about the inte...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:24
Navin. What has Changed with Therapy
In this conversation, Navin shares with me his experiences in therapy and answers some of my questions:Why talking to a therapist has been different for him from talking to family and friendsWhy feeling his emotions has bee...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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39:58
Hatty J. Lee, LMFT. What Brings Clients to Therapy
In this conversation, I speak with Hatty about what brings our Asian and Asian Americans clients into therapy specifically as it relates to family. We talk about how early childhood experiences and family dynamics impact our clients...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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50:43
Michelle. Living and Thriving with Bipolar Disorder
In this conversation, I speak with Michelle. Michelle is a writer, a mental health advocate, a partner, mother, an immigrant, a takeout kid. And, she was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder in her early 20s. We talked about her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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45:05
Jenjee Sengkhammee, PhD. Asians and White Supremacy
In this conversation, I speak to with Jenjee Sengkhammee PhD about the diversity in the Asian American identity and experiencesthe range of responses from Asian people to the Black Lives Matter movement h...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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38:07
Anneliese Singh PhD, LPC. Healing from Racism
In this conversation, I speak with Anneliese Singh PhD, LPC (she/they) about racial healing strategies from her book, The Racial Healing Handbook. Dr. Singh says that racism is the greatest trauma that we live with and that...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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53:06
Jenny Wang, PhD. How to lessen anxiety amidst COVID-19
Jenny and I talk about what anxiety is, how it manifests and offer some concrete suggestions on how to lessen it during this pandemic. Dr. Jenny Wang is a first generation, Taiwanese American licensed psychologist in Texas and North Car...
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Episode 2
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42:41