Dr. Kathy Wu is an Asian American New Yorker whose life mission is to help as many young people as possible thrive against adversity, and maximize their inner capacity for joy, innovation, and wellness.

 

Dr. Wu has been counseling and educating children, teens (and their parents), and young adults for over a decade. To date, she has worked in community mental health clinics, partial and inpatient psychiatric hospitals, therapeutic day treatment programs, outpatient practices, schools, and corporations. Previous to establishing her private practice, Dr. Wu was a tenure-tracked assistant professor of graduate clinical psychology at Widener University. She supervised graduate students doing their clinical training and taught courses in developing leadership potential, consultation and organizational psychology, and clinical case conference.

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Clinically, Dr. Wu received her master's degree in applied psychology, specializing in school counseling from New York University. She inspired countless college students to excel beyond expectations as a student advocate at Lehman College in New York City. Soon her yearning to learn more about how people are motivated to grow took her to Northeastern University, where she earned her PhD in counseling psychology. She completed her APA accredited pre-doctoral training at Astor Services for Children and Families in the Bronx, NY, where she worked with children and their families with immense emotional and behavioral challenges. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in trauma therapy at the CARES Institute of Rowan University, providing psychotherapy to families whose children and teens had been abused and neglected. She conceptualizes treatment strategies from a trauma-informed, ecological multi-systems, cognitive-behavioral and positive psychology lens. Learn more about Dr. Wu's philosophy of change here.

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Dr. Wu is a parent, gardener, and the author of The Self-Regulation Handbook for Teens and Young Adults. She is also a regular expert contributor to mental health related articles online and in print.