Instructor
Natalie Chih-lu Hung (she/her) is a second-generation Taiwanese American clinical psychologist and writer. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from City University of New York and her B.A. in Film Studies from Yale University. She has worked in a variety of settings, including the Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt, the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, the Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center, and The Addiction Institute of New York.
As a clinician and writer, Dr. Hung integrates animist, relational, and trauma-informed perspectives, and strives to transform stories that hold people captive into stories that set them free. Her specialties include intergenerational and collective trauma, dissociation, and complex PTSD; Asian American racialization; the intersections between personal and social identities; and grief. Her dissertation Boundaries and Belonging: Asian America, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis explored Asian American racialization, subjectivities, and implications for clinical practice. Her writing has appeared in The Keeping Room, Psychoanalytic Psychology, ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, and Death Studies.
She runs groups for Asian American women to heal from gendered racial trauma and is currently writing a self-help memoir about her own healing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom and works remotely with people in Maryland and New York.