WHO WE ARE

Program Manager at Asian Family Institute

Diana Chu, MFT, RDT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Program Manager at Asian Family Institute

Language: English, Cantonese (廣東話), Mandarin (普通話)

Diana Chu is a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Drama Therapist. She uses a psychodynamic approach, which focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. She also draws on Drama Therapy techniques, which provide alternative ways to relate to your emotions, thereby helping you to understand and cope with your emotions better. Further, Diana incorporates Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in conjunction with the mentioned therapy approaches. EMDR enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.

Diana provides counseling services for children, individuals, and families. She has developed and led workshops at national conferences on Drama Therapy and Mental Health and Technology. She also hosts a podcast called Waves of Change, which promotes mental health awareness in Asian American communities. She worked at various community mental health settings, including Community Youth Center, Counseling Enriched Educational Program, School-Based Counseling, Family Engagement Programs and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Clinic. 

朱女士是婚姻家庭治療師，也是註冊戲劇治療師。她採用心理動力治療法，剖析和解決你的內心矛盾，並幫助你認清自己需要作出改變的地方。她還借鑒戲劇治療技術，幫助您更好地理解和應對情緒。此外，朱女士並將眼動減敏重組療法（EMDR）與上述治療方法結合在一起。 EMDR能緩和你的傷痛情緒，更能顧及你內在的自我成長以及外在的社會資源系統之整合工作。

朱女士為兒童，個人，伴侶和家庭提供服務。她在北美戲劇治療和心理健康與技術會議上領導研討會。她還主持Waves of Change播客，在亞裔美國人社區中提高人們對心理健康認識。她曾在各種社區心理健康機構工作過，包括社區青年中心，諮詢強化教育計劃，校本諮詢，家庭參與計劃和自閉症譜系門診。

Licensed Psychologist

Andrea Chan, Psy.D.

Licensed Psychologist

Language: English and Cantonese (廣東話) 

Dr. Andrea Chan obtained her Doctor in Psychology from Alliant International University – California School of Professional Psychology (Hong Kong campus). She is a bicultural and bilingual (Cantonese) psychologist, working as a staff psychologist and clinical supervisor at RAMS outpatient services. She works with adults, older adults, children, youth, and families in addressing distress stemming from emotional and relationship issues, and identity confusion. Dr. Chan believes in the importance of co-creating a space that fosters a deeper understanding of one’s own identities and their intersectionality, examining and becoming curious about many parts of the self in order to create positive change in one’s quality of life, relationships, and actualization of internal yearnings. 

陳博士在Alliant International University – California School of Professional Psychology （香港校院）獲得臨床心理學博士學位。雙通英語和廣東話，並擁有兩地文化背景。在RAMS門診部擔任臨床心理學家和督導的崗位。臨床經驗包括幫助成人，小朋友，青少年，和家庭解決因情緒，個人關係和身份帶來的困擾。陳博士的宗旨是與病人共同創造一個安全舒適的環境，讓他們進入內心世界，利用心理治療所提供的空間來探索自己的思維，信念，和理想，從而提高自己管理情緒和面對挑戰的能力，活得精彩人生。 

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

Cruz Chan, AMFT

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Language: English, Cantonese (廣東話), Mandarin (普通話)

Cruz Chan is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor currently working at RAMS, Inc. She graduated with a Masters of Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Drama Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in 2019.

As a female Asian Therapist who grew up in Macau SAR, Cruz came to San Francisco in 2017 for pursuing her master degree. She can speak fluent Cantonese, Mandarin and English. Cruz works well with the new immigrant population, especially explorations with identity, gender, sexual orientation, life struggles as well as culture shocks issues. Cruz utilizes empathic listening, question asking, and neutral observation to support individuals to build more self-awareness and compassion.  She looks forward to witnessing your personal growth by providing a non-judgmental safe healing space for you.

陳氏是一名見習婚姻與家庭治療師和心理輔導員，目前在RAMS，Inc.工作。她於2019年畢業於加州整合學院，取得戲劇治療專業的心理諮詢碩士學位。
作為一名在澳門特別行政區長大的亞洲女性治療師，並於2017年赴三藩市攻讀碩士學位。 陳氏能說流利的廣東話，普通話和英語。 陳氏與新移民群體合作良好，尤其在身份認同，性別認同，性取向，生活以及文化衝擊上的議題上。 透過同理心聆聽，提問和中立的觀察來支持個案建立更多的自我意識和同理心。 她期待為您提供一個不批判的安全空間來見證您的個人成長。

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Nayla Al Kadi Jazaierly, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Language: English, Arabic (عربى), French

I am a Marriage and Family therapist with a Master in Psychology. I work with different populations; Children, teenagers, adults, couples and families. My main emphasis of work is based on looking at primary relationships and exploring its influence on client’s current well-being. A lot of weight is put on processing personalities & identities with the aim of supporting the evolution of the person’s view of themselves and to create satisfaction through movement to an authentic self-perception. I lived in Lebanon & USA. 

I served diverse communities where I worked on meeting clients where they are and supported them in the specific stages of their lives. I encourage clients to heal and embrace their present reality while working towards looking at their future with a transformed perspective. 

My goal is to help clients recognize different emotions, narrate their stories and finally transform their wounds into a healthy scar. I utilize Attachment, psychodynamic and existential theories. Much of the social work is based on character and attitude; I am endowed with patience, compassion, trustworthiness and a good sense of humor especially with children.

Registered Psychologist

Kelli Little, Psy.D.

Registered Psychologist
Language: English

Dr. Little is driven to provide care in under-served, mis-served, and marginalized communities. She has clinical experience in various community mental health settings in San Francisco. Currently, she works part-time in RAMS- AFI and full-time at RAMS-CAAP, where she provides individual and group psychotherapy, consultations with other providers, and psychological assessments for folks in the welfare system who face chronic mental illness, poverty, homelessness, and various other psycho-socio-cultural barriers.  She is dedicated to and interested in working with individuals, couples, and families in the LGBTQ+ community, as well as transitional age youth. Dr. Little approaches psychotherapy from a compassionate, multicultural, and trauma-informed lens with a strong focus on relational and systemic issues impacting her patients’ treatment needs. 

Dr. Little is a registered psychologist (#2012960) in California under the supervision of Yaguang Yan (PSY26916) and anticipates being licensure in early 2021. In addition to her clinical work and interests, she is passionate about fostering future psychotherapists as an adjunct professor for Masters level students at Notre Dame de Namur University.  

APCC Associate Professional Clinical Counselor

Larissa Tam, APCC

Associate Professional Clinical Counselor

Language: English, Cantonese (廣東話), Mandarin (普通話)

Larissa Tam received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University.  She has extensive experience in working with children, families and adults in various community mental health and public-school settings.  She currently provides early intervention and mental health consultation to support children between 0-5 years-old. She maintains a client-centered approach and integrates a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, brief solution-focused therapy, parent-child interaction therapy, trauma-informed care, and mindfulness-based interventions to address specific challenges. 

譚女士於約翰霍普金斯大學獲得臨床心理輔導碩士學位。她在社區和學校環境中, 為兒童、家庭和成年人提供心理健康服務並擁有豐富的經驗。她目前的工作是為 0-5歲的兒童提供早期介入和心理健康諮詢 。她透過親子互動療法來提高孩子的社交和情感技巧。另外, 她亦運用個人中心治療法及認知行為療法，並結合了焦點解決治療法，創傷知情護理和正念療法以幫助成人找到方向並通過指導方式去解決困難。

Licensed Psychologist

Christine Wai, PsyD

Licensed Psychologist

Languages: English and Cantonese (廣東話)

Dr. Christine Wai is a California licensed clinical psychologist with a bicultural and bilingual (Cantonese Chinese) background. She received her Doctor in Psychology (Psy.D.) from the Alliant International University-California School of Professional Psychology in Hong Kong and Masters in Education (Ed.M.) specializing in school counseling from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Wai believes in living fully and freely through a deeper understanding of self. She works with children, adolescents, adults and elderly individuals with compassion and undivided care to improve their quality of life through a collaborative, interactive, and in-depth approach that is fundamentally based on one’s curiosity and that integrates cultural sensitivity into clinical practice, psychoanalytic theory and familial conflicts surrounding intercultural and intergenerational differences. 

魏博士是加利福尼亞州執照的臨床心理學家，具有雙語廣東話背景。 她從香港聯合國際大學-加州專業心理學學院獲得心理學博士學位（Psy.D.），並從哈佛教育研究生院獲得了專門從事學校諮詢的教育碩士（Ed.M.）。 魏博士相信通過對自我的更深刻了解，從而更充分並自由地生活。她對孩子，青少年，成年人和老年人充滿同情心並且全身心地通過協作，互動和深入的方法提高他們的生活質量; 這要基於渴望了解並將文化敏感性圍繞跨文化和代溝差異融入臨床實踐，精神分析理論和家庭衝突 。

Licensed Psychologist

Anna Zozulinsky, PhD

Licensed Psychologist

Languages: English, Russian (русский), Hebrew (עִברִית)

Dr. Anna Zozulinsky received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University, with a research emphasis from the Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health at Stanford School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral internship at RAMS’s NAAPTC, and trained at several community mental health organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Zozulinsky serves as director of Child, Youth and Family Outpatient Services at RAMS and maintains a small clinical practice at Asian Family Institute.

As a trilingual (Russian and Hebrew) and tri-cultural psychologist, Dr. Zozulinsky has particular interests in identity formation across cultural contexts and immigration-related experience and is dedicated to providing culturally-sensitive services to children, youth, families, adults and couples. Her approach is rooted in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. She strives to create warm and safe relationships with her clients, to promote lasting change through collaboration and reflection.

Dr. Zozulinsky holds a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Tel Aviv University and was trained as a photographer at International Center of Photography in New York. She is keenly interested in the intersection between aesthetic experiences, creativity and psychological well-being and incorporates this sensibility in her clinical work.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Dennielle Kronenberg, LCSW, PPSC

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pupil Personnel Services Credential

Languages: English, Spanish (Español)

Dennielle Kronenberg is a bilingual (Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has provided services to adolescents and their families for over a decade.  Ms. Kronenberg began her career with RAMS as a Clinical Case Manager and Family Clinician at the Mission High School Wellness Center.  Her next role in the agency was working with youth on probation with substance use and mental health issues at Civic Center High School as part of the San Francisco Achievement Collaborative Team (SFACT).  Ms. Kronenberg continued her work with this population as Program Coordinator of SF TRACK.  She became Director of the RAMS Wellness Centers Program in 2019.

Ms. Kronenberg earned her Masters Degree in Social Work from San Francisco State University and also holds a California Pupil Personnel Services Credential to provide school based services for grades K-12.

Daniela Kronenberg es una trabajadora social bilingüe (LCSW) quien ha provisto servicios a los adolescentes y sus familias por más de una década.  Daniela empezó su carrera con RAMS como trabajadora de caso y clínica familiar en el centro de bienestar de Mission High School.  En su siguiente rol en la agencia trabajó con adolescentes involucrados en el sistema de libertad condicional.  El tratamiento que proveyó era centrado en la salud mental y desordenes del uso de la sustancia.  Desde 2019 es la directora del RAMS programa del bienestar.

Daniela tiene su maestría del programa de Social Work en San Francisco State University y también tiene su credencial (PPSC) para proveer servicios en las escuelas públicas de California (grados K-12).  

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

Josephine Chow, MS, AMFT

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Language: English, Cantonese (廣東話), Mandarin (普通話)

Love is a driving force in life. We experience love mostly in close connections and
relationships, especially intimate relationships. An intimate relationship can provide
for us a sense of completeness, significant support, and growth. However, it can
also be an arena in life where we can experience deep suffering and in turn, all our
psychological wounds can be retriggered. We commonly think that in a couple
relationship, there are only two people. There are, in fact, 4 people, because we are
also dealing with our own “inner partners” of each other. In a cisgendered,
heterosexual couple relationship, the inner partner here means the perfect woman
image in the psyche of a person who identifies oneself as male and the perfect man
image in the psyche of a person who identifies oneself as female. We will fall in love
with someone whom we believe to be the perfect embodiment of the inner partner.
However, after living together for a while, and when the real person peeps out from
behind the projection, we may get disappointed. We may find it hard to accept each
other’s differences, and then more issues may arise. Also, the imprinted
representations, beliefs, and expectations that we learned from our early childhood
experiences can also hinder the couple’s ability to objectively see the things arising
in the relationship. This can eventually lead to more misunderstanding,
miscommunication, hurt, and then resentment. Both the inner partner and the
imprinted representations of our early childhood experiences belong to the
mysterious unconscious. They play out in our intimate relationships, so it is here that
we encounter our unknown self.
Couples therapy is an effective way to help couples find out how these things hidden
in the unconscious play out in their relationships. Couples can learn new
communication skills, take responsibility for their own parts in relationship problems,
and experience each other in a new way. With these new skills and corrective
experiences, the couple can strengthen and support each other in their partnership
and eventually grow with an even greater sense of satisfaction in their lives together.
Answering the call to be a healer, I left my established career in business, entered
into the field of psychology, and obtained my master’s degree in counseling
psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Because I genuinely believe
that healing and transformation must be brought about by new experiences, and that
transformation leads to insight rather than vice versa, my orientation is strongly
informed by Gestalt, Somatic, and Transpersonal therapy. My working style is
experiential and somatic in addition to traditional, talk therapy. My 10 years of
spiritual practice also informs my therapeutic orientation, so mindfulness is also a
key component in my work with clients. I also have received extensive training in
somatic and Gestalt therapies. I have had rich experiences working with individuals
with complex trauma. In a word, my therapeutic approach is heartfulness, and I will
use my heart and my professional skills to hold a loving safe space for you, listen
non-judgmentally to you, be fully present with you, and work together with you.