DR. VIVIAN WANG, PsyD

Dr. Vivian Wang is a licensed clinical psychologist and has been with CARE-LA since 2018. Her areas of specialty include anxiety and depressive disorders, and behavioral and parenting issues. Dr. Wang provides therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and families. She believes in a strength-based approach to treatment where she helps clients identify their strengths and resiliency. Dr. Wang utilizes a cognitive behavioral (CBT) approach to empower her clients to learn new skills and to take on a more active stance in terms of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. While CBT is her primary approach to treatment, Dr. Wang often incorporates a variety of evidence-based approaches, especially mindfulness-based interventions, that are individualized to the clients’ and their family’s needs, to provide the most effective treatments.

 

Dr. Wang grew up in southern California and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2015, she received her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Consortium in Palo Alto, California. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Throughout her graduate career, Dr. Wang also sought out specialized training and research experience in the field of autism evaluation and treatment.

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