Professional Experience
Hi, I’m Anna. I created Concierge Mental Health to connect my community to high-quality, evidence-based, interdisciplinary mental health services and resources that draw from the fields of medicine, psychology, philosophy, and theology. My interests in these subjects has been developed over a decades-long search for answers to life’s endless challenges: physical and psychological illness, complex grief, trauma, relational struggles, and the existential need to find meaning in a world full of suffering, loss, and conflict. Over the years I’ve found insights from the annals of philosophy, theology, psychology, and multicultural history.
I am a public health specialist, educator, and mental health consultant, not a psychotherapist. In my practice I work collaboratively with a wide range of medical and mental health providers to provide services for people experiencing a wide range of personal and professional challenges. I enjoy working with all adults, and in particular, medical and graduate students, working professionals in the STEM fields, and retired people living with grief, loss, disability, and/or the desire for existential meaning, purpose, and expression.
Education
PhD, Claremont Graduate University, 2020
School of Community & Global Health, Health Prom. Sci., Concentration: Biostatistics
MPH, Claremont Graduate University, 2015
School of Community & Global Health, Public Health
MA, Pepperdine University, 2010
Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychology
BA, New York University, 2007
College of Arts & Sciences, History
Experience & Service
Dr. Yu Lee currently serves as President of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and as Adj. Professor in the School of Community & Global Health at Claremont Graduate University. Her teaching experiences include the development, delivery, and evaluation of courses in the Marriage & Family Therapy program in the USC Rossier School of Education, in Azusa Pacific University’s Masters of Science in Biostatistics program, UG Dept. of Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, and UG Dept. of Psychology.
Interdisciplinary Contributions
Dr. Yu Lee’s education and training are in multicultural psychology, public health, and biostatistics, and her professional experience spans the fields of journalism, counseling, residential care management, health promotion, and undergraduate/graduate instruction, with contributions including the planning, delivering, and evaluation of workshops, health initiatives, group activities, and interventions for individuals and groups disadvantaged by poverty, domestic violence, physical/psychological abuse, disability, isolation, and homelessness.
While her academic scholarship has primarily focused on multicultural perceptions and treatment of stigmatized health behaviors, she has also produced research on human emotions, eating behaviors, obesity, substance use, cognitive health, memory, and statistical science.
Dr. Yu Lee’s publications have appeared in journals of public health, social and behavioral health, and statistical education, as well as a reference text on substance and behavioral addictions published by the Cambridge University Press. On the subjects of her publications, she has presented to academic, clinical, and industry audiences in multiple countries in North America, Western Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
