James Y Lee Psy.D.

James Y Lee, Psy.D., received a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Before his graduate studies, he was a magazine journalist (WIRED, Time Out New York) and an EMT running psychiatric emergency calls.

As a clinical psychologist, he was heavily involved in San Francisco's AAPI community clinics, including acting as the mental health lead for Asian American Recovery Services, and helped train clinicians at the North East Medical Center, one of the first non-profits in the nation to help the medically-underserved APPI population. He currently works with people of color and Asian Americans in California through his telepractice, Liminal Space.

He has been committed to solving homelessness, serving as an organizational psych consultant for Hui Aloha, an advocacy group and innovative community builder for the houseless encampments in Oahu, in which Native Hawaiians are overrepresented. Dr. Lee was on the Mayor's shortlist for the role of executive director of the Dept. of Housing and Homelessness to lead the charge in Hawaii. During his free time, you'll find him either at home playing with his boys or out surfing.