YUKI YAMAZAKI
P.HD., LMHC
Yuki is a Counseling Psychologist whose clinical focus revolves around serious and persistent mental illness as well as Asian American mental health. Consistently, Yuki’s research focuses on Multiracial and Asian Americans experiences of stereotypes and microaggressions, and she has served as an invited speaker at The University of Tokyo’s Global Faculty Diversity Café series with the presentation, “An intersectional discussion on microaggressions and mental health.”
BACKGROUND
Yuki Yamazaki is a Counseling Psychologist currently serving as the Clinical Assistant Professor for the Counseling Psychology Department at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. She is a Licensed Counseling Psychologist as well as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York State. Yuki received her Master’s degree in Psychological Counseling from Teachers College Columbia University, and her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. She completed her pre-doctoral APA accredited internship at Manhattan Psychiatric Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at NYU’s Student Health Center in Counseling and Wellness Services working on their trauma and racial justice clinical teams.
Yuki remains committed to improving the field of psychology in both the clinical and academic realm, as she holds a position as the Secretary/Historian on the Executive Committee of the Division of Multiracial and Adopted Asian Americans of the Asian American Psychological Association. She is also an Early Career Scholar through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on College- Workforce Transitions (CCWT) sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, Yui’s current manuscripts in progress include: “Multiracial Asian Americans: Intersectional Perceptions of Microaggressions and the Model Minority Myth” and “Multiracial Japanese women’s collective healing from internalized racial -linguistic ideologies through co-constructing narratives of resistance.”