Professional Background
Dr. Wong has been active in the health and mental health field as a practitioner and scholar for over twenty years. He has a variety of interests centered on problems with anxiety and emotion regulation. His clinical-theoretical orientation combines psychodynamic, cognitive and neuropsychological approaches, with emphasis on contemporary ego, relational, and self psychologies. He also has longstanding interests in ethnic minority psychology, with a focus on East Asian American experiences.
After receiving his Sc.B. from Brown University, his Ph.D. (in Clinical Psychology) from the University of Michigan, and his postdoctoral training from the Psychiatry Department at the University of Michigan, Dr. Wong taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He is currently Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology of Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus). In his scholarly work, Dr. Wong's focus is on psychodynamic psychology with an emphasis on the emotional and motivational dimensions of implicit cognition in a variety of conditions (myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/pwong).
Dr. Wong is has conducted workshops and presentations nationally and internationally. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions of Psychotherapy, Ethnic and Minority Issues, and Psychoanalysis); the American Psychological Society; the New York State Psychological Association (where he was the inaugural-President of the Division of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity); the Asian American Psychological Association; and the New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health. Dr. Wong is also on the editorial boards of several major psychology and mental health journals.
