Psychologist and Therapist in Long Island City, New York Frank Wang, Psychologist

Dr. Frank Wang is a bilingual Christian Psychologist who has extensive experiences supporting Christians and helping them find meaning and purposes in life. Dr. Wang provides a safe, nonjudgmental space for your deep, personal experiences. It is always his goal to understand what it is like to be the clients in their specific contexts and provide the new experiences and insights to help clients obtain a meaningful and fulfilling life! Health is not just the absence of distress but the presence of positive experiences. Dr. Wang utilizes strength-based collaborative approaches to empower clients develop their values/skills, find solutions tailored to their unique situations, and realize their ideal life. Depending on clients’ desire and readiness, Dr. Wang can provide short-term solution-focused therapy or long-term psychodynamic therapy. Dr. Wang has years of practice in the integration of Christian faith and psychotherapy. He believes that psychotherapy can be a means of grace, God uses to heal people, like modern medicine. Mental health providers are largely non-religious or less religious than their clients. Working with a professional who shares their faith could prevent further fragmentation of clients’ personhood and deliver interventions that are truly effective and relevant. As a bilingual provider who is familiar with Chinese/Taiwanese/immigrant/foreigner culture along with years of lived experiences, Dr. Wang can make the kind of therapeutic connections and provide the kind of support that other professionals without a lived experiences or intimate knowledge cannot. Couples work is his passion. A thriving couples system is central to a flourishing family system. Dr. Wang uses Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to help couples develop a secure couples attachment, maintained and reinforced by a new adaptive interactional pattern between the partners. He also employs EMDR techniques to help clients work with their troubling implicit and explicit memories and increase mind-body integration. Outside of work, Dr. Wang enjoy arts and music as a way to express experiences words cannot describe. Singing karaoke is one of his favorite ways to connect with friends and his cultural heritage. He marvels at the creativity of various ethnic foods and would count himself as a foodie. Playing non-competitive board games with friends lets us make fond memories. Dr. Wang loves to read and learn, and resonates with the saying, “readers are leaders.” He has deep appreciation of wisdom and depth understanding of things, especially when articulated in a succinct and brilliant manner.