Kelly Koo
Self-employed; UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Clinical Psychologist
Oakland, California
United States
Highest Degree Held: Ph.D.
Specialties: Diversity issues, particularly around privilege, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Types of Clients: Adults, Elderly, Couples, Not listed
Languages spoken: English
Licensures/Certifications: CA psychology
ACT/CBS Background and Training: Multiple years of ACT training in graduate school with Madelon Bolling, Ph.D. (course work and supervised clinical case work) and in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy with Mavis Tsai, Ph.D. Also received 6 months of ACT supervision/case conference on predoctoral internship with Robyn Walser, Ph.D. at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
ACT/CBS Experience: Co-facilitated small ACT group and several individual therapy clients/patients. Provided ACT lectures on experiential exercises and overview of ACT for graduate students and psychology trainees.
Additional Information: I developed several ACT/FAP-based experiential diversity trainings that are generally on cultural competence/cultural humility. I am now self-employed, with a psychotherapy private practice, primarily providing ACT and FAP, and training and education in cultural humility for healthcare and education settings and corporate partnerships as well.