Dr. Sylvie Wong (she/her) is a psychology post-doctoral fellow who earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a B.A. from Bates College and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Throughout her training, she has worked to reduce barriers to mental health care and expand access to culturally responsive services for immigrant communities across the lifespan. Sylvie has trained in a range of hospital, school-based, and community settings across New York City, including Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai, and Maimonides Health. She brings particular expertise in supporting adolescents and emerging adults, as well as parents, couples, and families.

Sylvie draws on an integrative, person-centered approach and brings warmth, curiosity, playfulness, and authenticity to her work. She blends skills-based modalities such as CBT, DBT, and ACT to support symptom relief, while incorporating psychodynamic and attachment-based frameworks to help clients deepen their understanding of themselves and their relationships.

Her own experiences growing up in Hong Kong and moving to the U.S., along with her longstanding work with immigrant communities, inform her sensitivity to the familial, cultural, and societal forces that shape people’s inner worlds. With each client, Sylvie strives to co-create a shared language that helps them explore their experiences with greater curiosity and less judgment, cultivate compassion for the strategies they’ve used to survive, and actively practice new ways of coping with life’s challenges. She believes that healing takes root in a space where clients can, over time, bring forward their full selves —with all their complexity, pain, and strength—and feel genuinely witnessed and accompanied.