About You
You are seeking a safe and professional process to help you function better and feel happier. You are curious about yourself and motivated to work to get to a better place.
Finding new focus
Uncovering patterns
Unlocking depression
Knowing yourself
Growing confidence
Growing with life
Achieving goals
Building Resilience
Being together
Getting in the Zone
About Dr. Wu
Dr. Wu is a Harvard-trained Ph.D. psychologist and psychoanalyst with a deep respect and understanding of people and their capacity to change, based on decades of highly specialized training and experience.
Our Purpose
To partner in a process whose aim is to help you to realize your best potential, feel relief from suffering, and connect authentically to yourself and others.
Boston Psychologist
Jenai Wu Steinkeller, Ph.D.
psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, executive coach50 Franklin St., 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617.202.9990
Serving Boston, Massachusetts and the surrounding areas
What kind of people or problems does Dr. Wu specialize in?
The short answer is that I am qualified to work with a wide range of people and problems through an approach integrating my training as a psychoanalyst with a strong mindfulness and culture orientation. My training and experiences are both very deep and very broad. By the time I got my Ph.D. I had evaluated or treated nearly a thousand patients in a busy downtown Chicago hospital, not to mention all the different people (adults and children) I treated during my postdoctoral trainings at Boston hospitals such as MGH & Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, or during 20+ years of private practice. After my post-doctoral training I undertook and completed psychoanalytic training at Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, involving 10+ years of post-graduate studies, more supervised training, and personal analysis.
In a way the reason I’m a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst is that I find people inexhaustibly interesting and unique. After all these years and so many people, I find helping each person identify and work through their unique brand of stuckness and helping them connect to their own deep vitality more and more rewarding.
My broader practices in mindfulness, corporate consulting, cross-cultural consulting and conflict management also broaden my “areas of specialization.” Having worked as a management consultant in a boutique global firm and maintaining my own coaching and organizational consulting practice has made me very familiar with the concerns of people in the business world. My own deep interest in meditation and extensive mindfulness training has sensitized me to the growing array of people who are inspired or motivated to change through mindfulness. As an Asian-American psychologist my earliest research was in the intersection with culture and gender.
Intellectually I could say that I specialize in the nexus between psychology, culture and spirituality.
But in my practice I specialize in individuals. It is in joining people wherever they are and helping them move to a more liberated, flexible, joyful and vibrant state of being in the world that I am ever honing my skills.
Jenai Wu Steinkeller, Ph.D.
A highly credentialed and specialized clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Boston, Dr. Wu brings meticulous training and experience to her knowledge of the human mind. She is also a writer, teacher, and executive coach/consultant to organizations; and for over 20 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
Referral problems
Learn more about the types of referral problems that Dr. Wu treats, including stress, anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, peak performance, relationship issues, and couples counseling.
Mindfulness
Dr. Wu’s careful and methodical psychotherapeutic approach provides a structured and safe setting to uncover emotional and behavioral problems. Mindfulness and psychotherapy are seamlessly interconnected through non-judging, self-acceptance, and managing emotional reactivity.