Wisteria Deng

Wisteria Deng (she/her; M.S., M.Phil.) is a Clinical Psychology Fellow at Yale New Haven Hospital (Primary Placement in Behavioral Medicine) and a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Yale University. She previously worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a clinical research coordinator after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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 YNHH 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.

Wisteria also serves as the founding artistic director of Vermilion Theater, a non-profit theater organization that aims to uplift voices of the Chinese diaspora and foster a safe space for collective healing through artistic expression.