Jun-chih Gisela Lin, PhD, ABPP, is a counseling psychologist and the first woman Taiwanese-American psychologist to be elected president of the Asian American Psychological Association. She earned her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and currently works in Student Counseling Service at Texas A&M University. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Texas and board certified by the American Board of Counseling Psychology.
Lin works from a multicultural counseling framework and has a passion for working with marginalized students as a mentor at the graduate and undergraduate level. She is trilingual and offers counseling services in English, Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese. She is specifically interested in issues that impact international students, first-generation college students, women, sexual minorities and high achieving students. Additionally, Lin also offers services for academic, career, adjustment, family of origin, interracial and bi-cultural issues, which are stressors that are disproportionately more likely to impact first-generation students and students of color. She is a longtime advocate for Asian international students who are more likely to be taken advantage of and have adjustment issues in the United States based on stereotypes and differences regarding tradition, isolation, language barriers and differences in worldviews.
Lin is a fellow of American Psychological Association Divs. 17, 35, 45 and 52. She is a fellow and past president of the Asian American Psychological Association. Lin has worked internationally leading counseling delegate groups to China and Mongolia, eventually co-founding the Taiwan Psychology Network. She also maintains a private practice. Lin has served on the editorial board for books on countering prejudice in clinical and educational settings for both clients and practitioners.