QUALIFICATIONS

I hold a BA from Columbia and an MA from Harvard (with coursework at MIT). I received a fellowship at Yale in 2021 and the Phoenix Research Scholarship at the University of Chicago in 2022. Earlier, I enrolled in an another master’s program at Harvard—Human Development and Psychology (since renamed: Human Development & Education)—which provided the opportunity to engage with the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I also hold a diploma in depth psychology and am involved with efforts (‘salons’) to integrate phenomenology and psychoanalysis. I occasionally teach undergraduates.

research

While writing my interdisciplinary thesis, I reached out across departments—from psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School to philosophers at MIT exploring problems in philosophy of mind—to gain exposure to diverse perspectives on well-being. I was fortunate to have Professor Elizabeth Lunbeck, one of the world's leading scholars of the conceptual foundations of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, as the Director of Graduate Studies of my department (now Chair).

I explored the edge of what we can know with Peter Galison, head of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, debated ideas of justice and human capabilities with the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (who introduced me to Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's foremost contemporary philosophers), and benefitted from the work of the university's Human Flourishing Program.

I am especially well-versed in Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics, and I draw from ancient philosophy regularly in my sessions.

I've conducted research with Professor Daniel Bell (Chair of Political Theory at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and founding editor of the Princeton-China series) on meritocracy, and was invited to his talks at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Princeton's Center for Human Values, and Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center in 2023.

I’ve done the hard work—let me help you with the relevant, distilled insights.

—EPICTETUS

"In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”

POWER

While writing my interdisciplinary thesis, I reached out across departments—from psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School to philosophers at MIT exploring problems in philosophy of mind—to gain exposure to diverse perspectives on the challenge of defining, measuring, and enabling  human flourishing. I explored information paradoxes with Peter Galison, head of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, debated ideas of justice with the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and benefitted from the work of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

I am especially well-versed in Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics, and I draw from ancient philosophy regularly in my sessions. I’ve done the hard work—let me help you with the relevant, distilled insights.

I realized that the more psychological/psychiatric research tried to be ‘scientific,’ the further it went from appreciating the depth and complexity of the human condition. That’s why I base my work on fundamental principles rather than on prevailing theories and methodological orthodoxies in the mental health professions, which tend to dramatically change every decade.