Worthiness, Values, and Self Love

Episode

Dr. Andy Choi shares his journey from his graduate education to his current role as a licensed psychologist. Andy shares how scholars, mentors, friends, and family influence his work today.

Guest

Dr. Andrew Young Choi is an Assistant Faculty, Licensed Psychologist, and Coordinator of Practicum Training at the Counseling and Student Development Center of The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He also operates a private practice emphasizing young adults and professionals from diverse sociocultural backgrounds and walks of life.

His critical scholarship has addressed intersectionality and racism-related stress among the Asian diaspora and measurement and interventions relevant to LGBTQ health disparities. His works have been published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and commended by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), the Society of Counseling Psychology (APA Division 17), and the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race (APA Division 45). He serves on the Editorial Boards of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Dr. Choi earned his Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology with an emphasis in Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He fulfilled his APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology at his current agency and his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School. Dr. Choi is a former APA Minority Fellow, Pacific Athletic Conference (Pac-12) Postgraduate Scholar, and University of California Regents Special Fellow.