Asians Do Therapy

Mar 09 2025 19 ep. 45 mins 16
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Conversations with Asians and Asian Americans on both sides of the couch.

Hosted by Yin J. Li, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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Panthea Lee. Social Transformation

Mar 09 2025 54 mins  
In this conversation, I speak with Panthea Lee. She has written for The Nation, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, worked at the United Nations, and co-founded a social justice organization, Reboot, which she led for over 13 years working on initiatives and launching programs in over 30 countries for the likes of UNICEF and the World Bank. Her full bio below. I first learned about Pa

erin Khuê Ninh. Model Child / Model Minority

Aug 02 2024 37 mins  
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 capitalist production unit, producing “model children” who strikingly resemble the model minority. Some of the topics we talk about: the themes of

Sahaj Kaur Kohli. The Culture Broker

Apr 30 2024 58 mins  
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 therap

J.S. Park. The Therapriest

Feb 11 2024 43 mins  
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

Michelle MiJung Kim. Silence and Speaking

Dec 17 2023 56 mins  
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, special

Dhwani Shah, MD. What is Psychoanalysis?

Jul 28 2023 52 mins  
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

Vickie Ya-Rong Chang, PhD. Healing the Earth of Your Body.

Sep 26 2022 50 mins  
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 fir

Rosa Lim, PhD. Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating.

Jul 25 2022 44 mins  
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 ...

Jenny Tzu-Mei Wang, PhD. Permission to Come Home Together

Apr 29 2022 56 mins  
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 came to beHow she weaved in the personal, the educational and the practicalHer journey off the well marked pathHer experiences in therapyHer love for Asian and Asi

Valerie Yeo, PsyD. Religious Trauma and the Asian American Experience

Feb 24 2022 44 mins  
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 discussed: Adverse religious experience and religious trauma. How are they different?When folks are deconstructing their faith, what might they be experi