Wen Chang-Lit
She/Her/Hers
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, LCAT Master of Arts, MA Licensed Psychotherapist Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, LCAT Master of Arts, MA Licensed Psychotherapist Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsWen Chang-Lit is a trauma-informed licensed creative arts therapist and certified EMDR therapist. She specializes in treating PTSD, Complex-PTSD, anxiety, depression, perfectionism, relationship issues, and addiction.
Wen is experienced in working with individuals who are children of abusive, neglectful, or narcissistic parents. Growing up in such environment can result in forming insecure attachment styles, fear of abandonment, negative core beliefs, poor boundary, emotion dysregulation and/or addiction. Wen helps her clients to reprocess past trauma and reduce emotional sensitivity, and to form positive self-beliefs and more secure attachment patterns through trauma informed, integrative methods.
As a creative arts therapist, Wen also incorporates music and art making, movement, and other creative process as a channel for her clients to express and explore the unconscious. The creative process helps releasing tension in the body and unburdens the client from suppressed emotions and the "product" serves as a reflection of the internal landscape ready to be explored. This creative process can be profound and enriching.
Wen’s clients often reported that after EMDR treatments, the same triggers no longer affect them and they are more able to move through difficult feelings with mindful self compassion.
Wen has witnessed the transformation in her clients and is passionate about her collaboration with her clients towards healing and personal growth.
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Healing painful experiences and memories from the past
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) - Recovering from the impact of long-term, repeated traumatic events, such as emotional abuse and neglect
Work stress - Managing overwhelming stress and expectations; increasing effective ways of restoring and maintaining emotional stability and health; addressing challenging relationships with coworkers and bosses
Relationship issues - Understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships; exploring patterns of interaction, addressing concerns, and strengthening satisfaction in relationships and dating
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Years of Experience: 13 years
Private Practice, Psychotherapist/ Music Therapist, 2017 - Present
Trauma Affiliate at National Institute for Psychotherapies, Trauma Therapist, 2019 - 2020
Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Medical Music Psychotherapist , 2012 - 2017
EMDR International Association, EMDR Certified, 2023
EMDR International Association, EMDR Therapy for Complex PTSD, 2023
EMDR International Association, Sex Therapy and EMDR, 2023
EMDR International Association, LGBTQ+EMDR Therapy Experiences, 2023
PESI, Anxiety Certification Course: Integrate CBT and Exposure & Response Prevention for Treatment of GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, & Phobias, 2023
Institute for Music & Consciousness , Music and Imagery Level II, 2021
National Institute for Psychotherapies, Introductory Internal Family System, 2020
National Institute for Psychotherapies, EMDR training, 2019
Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Poly Vagal Trauma Workshop with Dr. Porges, 2017
New York University , MA, 2010
New York: 001787
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