Clear Harbor Healing and Empowerment
Consultant Committee

Rongyu Xin

Consultant

Counseling psychology doctoral candidate with experience supporting adolescents and adults across community, campus, and outpatient settings.

Rongyu Xin
700+ hoursclinical psychotherapy experience with adolescents and adults
Clinical settingscommunity mental health, university counseling, and outpatient psychiatry
Cultural careinterests in adjustment, coping, and family communication

The experience behind the work

Rongyu studied Psychology and Child Development at Vanderbilt University, earned an M.Ed. in Prevention Science and Practice from Harvard, and is listed as a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at Lehigh University.

Her background includes more than 700 clinical hours in psychotherapy with adolescents, young adults, and adults.

She has experience in community mental health, counseling center settings at Lehigh and UPenn, and UPenn’s Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. Her training includes psychodynamic therapy, prolonged exposure therapy, and DBT.

Her research and practice interests include adolescent and young adult mental health, cultural adjustment, attachment, coping, academic stress, and family communication.

Read Rongyu’s full background

EducationB.S. in Psychology and Child Development (double major), music minor, Vanderbilt University
M.Ed. in Prevention Science and Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Doctoral Candidate in Counseling Psychology, Lehigh University

Professional Background700+ clinical hours in psychotherapy, targeting adolescents, young adults, and the general adult population
Experiences in community mental health, University Counseling center settings (Lehigh University & UPenn), and UPenn Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
Trained in psychodynamic therapy, prolonged exposure therapy, and DBT

Research/Practice interestsAdolescent/young adult mental health
Cultural adjustment
Attachment
Coping
Academic stress
Family communications