Jessica Lin, PhD
Licensed Psychologist in the State of California (PSY36418)
Hi, I’m Jessica (she/her) – you’re welcome to call me Jess. As a therapist, I care deeply about creating a space where you can feel seen, supported, and free to bring your full self into the room. My approach centers on honoring your identities, cultures, and lived experiences, while also exploring how the systems around us shape our mental health and well-being. My style is empathetic, collaborative, and flexible – sometimes that looks like building practical skills together, and other times it means slowing down to reflect on how you see yourself, relate to others, and move through the world.
As a client-centered, integrative therapist, I tailor my approach to each person’s unique needs. I’m also deeply committed to incorporating social justice and cultural humility through a trauma-informed lens. My work draws from a range of evidence-based practices, including:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Feminist Multicultural Therapy
- Third-wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Time-limited, brief, and solution-focused approaches
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Internal Family Systems (“parts work”)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Neurodiversity-affirming approaches
- Executive functioning coaching and skills-building
- Strengths-based approaches
I enjoy working with adolescents, transitional-age youth, and adults. I’m especially passionate about supporting individuals from historically underserved and marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) queer, AAPI, and neurodivergent clients. My clinical areas of focus include:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- ADHD-related concerns (e.g., late-in-life diagnosis, AuDHD, executive functioning challenges across domains)
- Substance use concerns (particularly cannabis cessation)
- Trauma, including complex and intergenerational trauma
- QTBIPOC-affirming care
As a second-generation, queer, Asian American, cisgender woman, I bring my own lived experience of navigating culture, identity, and systems of power and oppression into this work. I also know that growth can be messy, nonlinear, and full of restarts—and that doesn’t make it any less meaningful. My hope is that our work together offers space for clarity, self-compassion, and a deeper sense of alignment with what matters most to you, along with a reminder that you don’t have to figure it all out alone.
I hold a PhD in Clinical Psychology and completed both my doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara Counseling and Psychological Services. Outside of work, I tend to follow curiosity wherever it leads—lately, that’s looked like getting back into reading for pleasure, hiking Bay Area trails with my rescue pup, Jingle, and slowly trying to figure out whether I actually enjoy jogging or just the idea of it.
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