Elena YeeElena Yee

Elena Yee is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey and a licensed mental health counselor in New York and Rhode Island. She works as a psychological counselor and LGBTQIA+ liaison at Ramapo College of New Jersey and has her own private practice, Elena T Yee Counseling. 

 

 

 

  • Floating and Unplugging

    Mar 14, 2016
    Even before I decided to return to graduate school for mental health counseling, I was already interested in psychology, and reading news articles or watching videos about mental health and different therapies. I've been particularly interested in how social media and technology has taken up much of our mental and emotional space.
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  • Systemic Self-Care: Is it possible?

    Jan 19, 2016
    Last semester I took my third practicum class, which afforded me the opportunity to delve more deeply into my counselor identity, to learn from my classmates and to apply what I have learned in the past year and summer when meeting with clients. I found that my interaction from my classmates, many of which who had been in the profession for some time, rewarding, challenging and encouraging.
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  • Vive La France

    Nov 16, 2015
    Last week I was reading on the ACA Open Forum about the annual conference being held in Montreal, Canada. It was interesting for me to read how some members felt that ACA is an “American” organization that should hold its conference in the United States. I wonder how some would respond if the conference was in Puerto Rico or Guam forgetting that the U.S. includes territories
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  • A First Year in Graduate School

    Sep 08, 2015
    It’s hard to believe that I’ve finished my first year and first summer in my graduate program in clinical mental health counseling. Here I am with nine courses under my belt and eleven to go before I graduate in May 2017. It has been an interesting experience of being a non-traditional student (i.e. in my early fifties) and as one of the few students of color in my classes.
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  • Will We Respond?

    May 27, 2015
    Since my last posting, racism continues to rear its ugly head in places like Baltimore and Cleveland. Much of it is due to the realities of brutality and oppression and the institutionalizing of racism in police enforcement in the United States. All of this reminded me of the session I attended at the ACA conference in Orlando this past March
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