Wisteria (she/her) is a Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at Yale University and the founding artistic director of Vermilion Theater - a non-profit organization that aims to uplift voices of the Chinese diaspora and explore collective healing through arts.

Wisteria specializes in delivering trauma-informed care across diverse populations, particularly within medical and marginalized communities. She has provided therapy and consultation services for gender-expansive youth through the Yale Gender Program. She found home in her work at the Yale New Haven Hospital Behavioral Medicine Services, especially in caring for patients in palliative care. From there, she expanded her work through collaborating with researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, assisting in a clinical trial to adapt meaning-centered psychotherapy for Chinese immigrant cancer patients.

Wisteria's research spans clinical, social and cognitive psychology. Her work investigates the interplay between emotion regulation and belief inflexibility, with a special emphasis on the impact of contextual factors such as minority stress and social safety.

LinkedIn: Wisteria Deng

Ins: @wisteria__