DCIT Team
Diana Chu LMFT Training Designer & Presenter
Diana Chu is a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Drama Therapist in San Francisco. Diana provides counseling services for children, individuals, and families. She has developed and led workshops at national conferences on Drama Therapy and Mental Health and Technology. She is the co-founder of Curalens.ai. She also co-hosts a podcast called Waves of Change, which promotes mental health awareness in Asian American communities. She worked at various community mental health settings, including Community Youth Center, Counseling Enriched Educational Program, School-Based Counseling, Family Engagement Programs and Autistic Spectrum Disorder Clinic.
Aza Tetelman Psy.D Editor
Dr. Aza Tetelman is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, inter-generational conflicts and acculturation difficulties. She enjoys facilitating self-understanding via bibliotherapy techniques, whether through the use of novels, self-help books, comics, or other media. She also believes that preventative care is just as important as healing in the aftermath of life challenges. Her clinical approach is warm and attentive, and takes on relational, dialectic, and insight-oriented approaches to treatment.
Dr. Tetelman is fluent in English and Russian and enjoys working with adult individuals and couples in Orinda, CA and via telemedicine across the state of California.
Melanie Lei AMFT Presenter
Melanie specializes in working with the following groups and diagnoses: BIPOC folks, especially children of immigrants and those who have suffered from intergenerational trauma, Complex PTSD, and ADHD. Melanie offers therapy for both adults and teens. She is also trained as a sleep coach and can offer CBT for Insomnia to support sleep issues.
An Huỳnh, M.A. Presenter (English and Vietnamese)
An Huỳnh is a Ph.D. student at the California School of Professional Psychology - San Francisco. He specializes in research on intergenerational trauma and resilience of the Southeast Asian-American community, and he has presented his research at the WPA and APA conferences. He has worked at various community mental health and school-based settings including Community Youth Center, Burton High School in San Francisco, and Roosevelt Middle School in Oakland. His clinical approach is culturally sensitive and trauma-informed, integrating elements of DBT, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based therapies. He is fluent in English and Vietnamese and enjoys working with youth and young adults.