Janice Yu Psy.D.

Janice Yu, Psy.D., has served as a testing and assessment clinical director, a Superior County court expert witness, a clinical and training supervisor, and a senior psychological evaluator in various settings throughout her career. Over the past decade, she has performed clinical, legal, and community psychological assessments for referral questions including neurodiversity, diagnostic and differential clarification, capacity, competency, forensic commitments, disability, trauma, and immigration statuses. Her private practice specializes in the assessment of autism, ADHD, giftedness, and learning differences testing and assessment. She has provided court testimony in the capacity of a qualified expert witness in the field of psychological evaluation in California Superior Courts throughout the state.

Currently, at Kaiser Permanente Psychiatry in San Francisco, Yu is the clinical director of assessment, administrative manager, and senior psychological evaluator for the child and adult assessment programs. She also implemented the clinical training program for psychologists, psychological associates, and master's level trainees in various aspects of psychological assessment. Prior to this role, she was the Senior Psychologist Specialist Evaluator at Napa State Hospital, where she provided evaluations for diagnostically complex cases pertaining to legal commitments within the state hospital. She has also served as community program director and clinical supervisor of the Conditional Outpatient Release program and served on the evaluator panel for mental disorders for the State of California. At the California Department of State Hospitals and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility in Stockton (acute and intermediate, medical, and mental health care), Yu was a staff psychologist specializing in assessment and developed the training onboarding program for newly hired psychologists.

Yu completed residency and practicum trainings at the California Department of State Hospitals in Stockton, the San Francisco Forensic Institute, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (youth and juvenile assessment and treatment), the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (substance abuse and trauma), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (San Francisco), and the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District (therapy for learning disabled and special education needs). While she was in training, she was also employed at the Maguire Correctional Facility in San Mateo County. She was awarded her combined Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Alliant International University in Clinical Forensic Psychology in 2015. She received a bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University in communication in 2009.