Jing strives to build a non-judgmental, culturally sensitive, and safe environment for her clients to feel comfortable exploring their inner vulnerabilities and insecurities. With her compassionate, direct and empathetic approach, Jing works with her clients to develop a deeper and more nuanced sense of self-understanding, particularly as it pertains to relationships with their family, culture, and life circumstances.
Jing’s special interests include working with interracial/intercultural relationship issues, grief and loss, racial and identity, parenting, blended families and life transition issues. In the past, Jing has enjoyed working with individuals from across the full range of ages and backgrounds, which has involved doing therapy with people who struggle with marital conflicts, relationship issues, self esteem, confidence, depression, anxiety, and an array of mental health and life challenges.
Jing utilizes a wide array of theories and approaches that combine Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, and family systems therapy. Jing works to help her clients gain a clear understanding of them selves and within their relationships to help them feel better moving through their lives. She specializes in treating couples, individual adults and young adults. She also enjoys working with families. Together with her clients, Jing helps them to create new meanings for their lives and to build a deeper connection with their loved ones.
Jing recently completed an intensive three year advanced certificate training course in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy to help clients get unstuck and move forward in their life by better understanding themselves and their patterns. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Science degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. During her graduate education, Jing became a certified grief and recovery specialist. Prior to her graduate studies, she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. Recently, Jing completed the fellowship program through the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. As a native Mandarin Chinese speaker, Jing also provides counseling service in Mandarin Chinese. Jing is licensed to provide therapy to clients who are located in Maryland or Virginia.
Below is a list of trainings Jing has attended to enhance her expertise:
Washington School of Psychiatry
- 2/29/2019 Couple Therapy in the shadow of Trauma: Enhancing Emotional Regulation and Mentalization. Presenter: Heather Maclntosh, PhD. Panel Discussion by Richard Chefetz, MD and Charles McCormack, MSW.
- 3/8/2019 Eyes on the Relationships: Applications of Infant Observation to Early Clinical Interventions with Parents/babies/children. Presenter: Mariângela Mendes de Almeida, PhD
- 3/23/2019 Oedipus Wrecks: Extramarital Affairs as Manic Defense: Turning a Blind Eye to Mourning. Presenter: Shelley Nathans, PhD.
- 5/19/2019 A Question of Civility. Presenter: Richard Ruth, PhD.
- 6/2/2019 Trauma and Addiction. Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW.
- 1/11/2020 Depression: When Anger Goes Inward. Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW.
- 7/18/2020 Splitting, Projection, and Dissociation: Treating the Severely Fragile Patient. Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW.
- 4/8/2021 The wish to Suffer: Splitting in personality disorders. Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW.
- 5/15/2021 Attachment Theory: An Indispensable Tool for Psychotherapists. Presenter: Mauricio Cortina MD.
- 1/8/2022 Building an Alliance with the Fragile Traumatized Patient. Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW.
- 2019-Present. Intensive Short Term Dynamic Core Training. Pending graduation: June 2022
Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
- 4/12/2019 The Meaning of Pain. Presenter: Georgia Royalty, PhD
- 5/10/2019 Many Paths to Parenthood. Presenter: Joan Lieberman, MD
- June 2019 Introduction to Couple and Family Therapy Core Concepts. Presenters: Linda Grey, MSN, and Carolyn Ratner-Fitzgerald, JD, PsyD
- 9/13 The Female Gaze on the Female Body. Presenter: Sandra Hershberg, MD
- 1/10/2020 Are you my mother? How disrupted attachment changes the coping strategy of a person with recurrent cancer. Presenter: Carol Ann Dyer, MD
Janina Fisher (Pesi), 2019
Dr. Bessel Vander Kolk (Pesi), 2021