Asians Do Therapy Yin J. Li, LMFT

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 broker in her family and the shifts in her family dynamics with her parents and siblingsmental health and what it means, differences in mental health education and therapyher therapy journey and challenges of finding a therapist for herself I found Sahaj to be warm, endearing, and transparen...

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, we talk about:his journey to becoming a chaplainclimbing mount assimilation and what gets lostwhat he means about being therapriestwhat got him into consistent therapy and medicationsuicide and his attempt 20 years ago. CONTENT WARNING. it's between minutes 12 an...

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, The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change.Michelle is the first non-therapist I have on the podcast for some time. I have been inspired by her advocacy and activism, specially so in the last several weeks as it relates to Palestine. We talk about her lived experiences and how they...

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 ithow love and hate exists in all of our relationshipshow therapy is a listening practice above allthe intersection of therapy and culturethe collective racialized fantasies of "Asian American" I really appreciated Dhwani's openness in sharing his thinking, his background, and ...

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. The psychological and emotional impact of climate change is irrefutable. We don’t need research to know that we can’t be doing well when our home, our planet is on fire and flooding. But research does show that with increased temperatures, our baseline level of distress als...

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 disordered eating,· how eating disorders is a disorder of disconnection, · the correlation of trauma and eating disorders,· how eating disorders develop,· the kinds ...