About Leanh Nguyen
As a clinician, Leanh Nguyen has worked in a variety of settings, from inner-city hospitals to refugee camps and detention centres. She has treated a wide range of conditions, ranging from chronic depression, panic disorder, anorexia, to post-traumatic stress disorder. Her patients have been people from all walks of life, all corners of the world, coming to her with struggles with childhood abuse, war trauma, torture, immigration trauma, as well as mental illness.
She has applied her clinical expertise to settings outside of traditional therapeutic venues. In Federal Immigration courts, she was a respected expert witness on issues pertaining to trauma and highly effective helping win asylum claims for victims of persecution. With human rights agencies such as Physicians for Human Rights, International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch, Physicians without Borders, she was a valued and effective consultant on missions in Sudan, Tchad, Turkey, Vietnam. And a beloved supervisor, she has worked with psychiatry residents, psychology doctoral students, and law students from many different universities.
Dr. Leanh Nguyen also brings to her clinical work a range of extraordinary life experiences and excellence in studies and training.
Born into the Vietnam War, she escaped communism to land in France, where she completed rigorous Baccalaureate in Classic Literature. She then emigrated to the United States, where she pursued her higher education. She studied Psychology and French Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with magna cum laude honors. New York University actively recruited her for their prestigious doctoral program in clinical psychology. Her doctoral thesis was fully funded and eventually awarded “best dissertation of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.”
Soon after obtaining her Ph. D., Leanh Nguyen was offered admission to the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, where she obtained highly specialized training and intensive studiers in psychoanalysis. Her tenure at the NYU Postdoctoral Program was funded by multiple fellowships from various foundations such as the Rose Harris, Ford, and NYU Diversity Committee.
While training in psychoanalysis, Leanh Nguyen also pursued mindfulness meditation and Buddhist studies. She attended retreats and seminars with Buddhist teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Sharon Salzberg, Christopher Titmuss, Goenka, at locations ranging from North America to France to Asia.
Always an ambitious student of human nature and a relentless searcher for ways to help patients effect change, Dr. Nguyen pivoted to training in coaching in the past 5 years and has added Board Certification in Coaching to her credentials.
