• Dr. Aki Hosoi Brings Warmth And Wisdom To Mental Health Therapy

  • Aug 17 2024
  • Length: 45 mins
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Dr. Aki Hosoi Brings Warmth And Wisdom To Mental Health Therapy

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  • If you were thinking of becoming a therapist, you'd be hard pressed to find a better instructor and mentor than Dr. Aki Hosoi. Now a senior staff psychologist and the director of training at Colorado State, where she oversees a graduate-level training program that provides clinical training master’s and doctoral level clinicians, her career path is winding and varied. After graduating from Amherst College in 1994, Aki spent a year doing internships, including working with endangered cranes and conducting whale research. While completing her dissertation in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she began volunteering at the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center. That's where she found her true calling. She went on to earn a second PhD, this time in Counseling Psychology, at Colorado State University, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the San Francisco Veteran’s Hospital. For the last 13 years, she has worked as a therapist for university students at the Colorado State University Health Network. In this episode, you'll learn: Aki's take on the state of mental health on college campuses today How the tactful introduction of clinician authenticity and vulnerability can improve care and results How the mental health market, including both the supply and demand-side, has evolved post-Covid The surprising and most memorable professional feedback she ever received The Amherst classmates she wants me to interview next For more information on Aki and the work she does, click this link to her training website. You also can email her at aki.hosoi@colostate.edu.
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