Meet The Team
Our team is the heart and soul of our organization.
Meet The Team
Yixi Dong, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Hey there! I’m Yixi, a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Whether you’re battling anxiety, feeling the weight of depression, or managing ADHD, OCD, and trauma, I’m here to help you through it. With a special focus on the unique challenges faced by international students and college students, I understand just how tricky navigating mental health in a fast-paced world can be.
Born out of a passion for mental wellness, my approach combines psychotherapy and medication management to tailor a care plan just for you. Fluent in both English and Mandarin, I’m all about connecting and making sure you feel heard and understood. Let’s work together to turn those tough days into brighter ones.
Because when life gives you lemons, let’s make lemonade together! 🍋
Xuemeng (Charlotte) Wu, LMHC
Charlotte is a bilingual (English/Mandarin) licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Massachusetts. Charlotte completed her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling at Boston College in 2019 and has practiced in the relevant field since then.
She has worked with clientele from young children to the elderly, and settings from individual, family, group, and inpatient. She has worked together with clients with concerns ranging from anxiety, depression, stress and trauma, to adjustment to life changes, searching for life purpose, relationships, etc. Charlotte understands it is never easy to decide to start therapy. Therefore, Charlottes has a mission to treat each individual with respect, dignity, and genuineness.
Coming from an immigration background in the U.S., Charlotte personally experienced struggles as an international student in school, in workplace, and day-to-day life. Charlotte believes her background and expertise in therapy will help clients who might face similar concerns to feel heard, to better cope, and to thrive in their lives.
Katherine Hayden
Katherine (she/her/hers) is a Master’s of Clinical Social Work (MSW) student intern residing in Massachusetts. She is in her final year of her part-time degree program at Boston University and has interned previously both in outpatient as well as in-home settings. Today, she predominantly works with adults, couples, and enjoys working with the LGBTQIA+ community.
She has worked with a diverse array of clients across lines of identity and ability. Katherine’s clinical background includes supporting individuals experiencing challenges with stress, adjustments to change, interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance use, developmental and neurological differences, and searching for meaning in life. She also aids couples in cultivating effective conflict navigation, communication skills, commitment, and trust.
Katherine acknowledges the many ways our larger society and the systems we live in exacerbate mental health hardships. Given the high pressure, hurried, achievement-driven dominant culture many of us contend with, she knows it can feel impossible to find your way without help. Katherine is passionate about empowering her clients to give voice to their internal experiences, find stability in present moment mind-body awareness, define their own life’s values, and live them out in meaningfully human ways. To inform her work, she uses a range of theoretical frameworks such as ACT, CBT, DBT, MI, and the Gottman Method (couples).
In her free time, Katherine enjoys being outside, engaging in almost any artistic expression, and connecting with her community.
