Yu (Alisa) Wu, MEd, New York, NY | Psychotherapist

About Yu (Alisa) Wu

Clientele seen

Young adults (18-24)

Adults (25-64)

Individuals

Identity

Gender

Female

Languages spoken

English

Getting to know Yu (Alisa) Wu

Meet Alisa Wu, MHC-LP, an East Asian therapist dedicated to helping clients explore the deeper layers of their emotional world. With advanced training in multiple evidence-based modalities, she brings both extensive clinical expertise and cultural understanding to her work. Alisa is a Level 2 trained AEDP therapist. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is an experiential, attachment-based approach that focuses on accessing and transforming core emotional experiences. Rather than just talking about feelings, this approach creates moments where you can actually feel and process emotions in a safe, attuned relationship, leading to profound shifts in self-compassion and building safe relationships. Drawing from a psychodynamic perspective, Alisa helps clients understand unconscious patterns formed early in life that continue to shape how they relate to themselves and others. By bringing these patterns into awareness, therapy creates space for new ways of being with more freedom and clarity. Alisa also integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients work with different "parts" of themselves—the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the protector—with curiosity rather than judgment. This approach is particularly effective for those carrying shame or self-criticism. For couples, Alisa draws on Level 2 training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an attachment-based approach that helps partners understand their conflict patterns and create deeper and safer emotional connection.

What should a new client know about working with you?

People-pleasers and highly self-critical individuals who are processing childhood trauma and want to build self-compassion and relationships where they feel truly seen, not just valued for taking care of others.  Clients healing from trauma, whether relational, developmental, or cultural. Her attachment based, experiential approaches (AEDP, IFS, EFT) are specifically designed for trauma work, accessing implicit memory, the emotional and bodily patterns stored from early experiences, to create lasting change beyond what talk therapy alone can achieve.  High achievers who've tied their self-worth to external validation (grades, job titles, productivity) and are seeking a more grounded, internalized sense of identity.  Those navigating East Asian family dynamics, including guilt toward parents, over- controlling or critical parenting, inherited money trauma, emotional distance, and boundary struggles, etc.  Intellectually sophisticated clients who bring depth and nuance to therapy and may have felt misunderstood in other spaces (Alisa studied philosophy in her undergraduate years and values the complexity these clients bring).

In-network insurances

Popular visit reasons

Agoraphobia

Depression

Hoarding Disorder

New Patient Visit

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Intake / Initial Visit

Sleep Problems

Young Adult Issues

Agoraphobia

Depression

Hoarding Disorder

New Patient Visit

Office location

Yu (Alisa) Wu, MEd also offers online video visits for patients

Both / And Psychotherapy

71 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10010

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Education and background

Practice names

Both/And Psychotherapy

Education and training

Columbia University, MEd in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

NPI number

1255293882

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What practice does Yu (Alisa) Wu work with?

Yu (Alisa) Wu works with Both/And Psychotherapy.

Where is Yu (Alisa) Wu's office located?

Yu (Alisa) Wu has 2 office locations in New York, view full addresses on Yu (Alisa) Wu's profile.

What are common reasons for patients to see Yu (Alisa) Wu?

Yu (Alisa) Wu frequently sees patients for Depression, New Patient Visit, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Intake / Initial Visit, and Sleep Problems. You can see other visit reasons for Yu (Alisa) Wu on their profile.