Board-Certified Psychologist · Scholar · Educator
Psychotherapy for professionals with demanding lives and complex identities
You can be accomplished and still feel disconnected from who you are and what you want. I offer culturally and sociopolitically attuned psychotherapy to help you understand what is shaping your life and make choices that feel more fully your own.
Based in New York City · Telehealth in NY, CA, and HI
When achievement is not the whole story
You may know how to exceed standards, solve difficult problems, and turn quickly to the next challenge. But perhaps achievement has not brought the grounded sense of self or lasting fulfillment you hoped for.
You might be caught in perfectionism and overwork, struggling in relationships, or unable to shake a vague but persistent sense that something isn’t working—even when life appears successful from the outside. For people living across multiple cultures and communities, these concerns can also involve belonging, recognition, and competing values or expectations.
Psychotherapy offers a nonjudgmental space to understand the forces that have shaped you and what remains within your power to change. This work can help you reconsider inherited ideas about who you are and what should matter most, so you can move forward more authentically, with greater clarity and purpose.
Deeper understanding can lead to different choices
My clinical approach is active, collaborative, and personalized. Within an anchored therapeutic relationship, we focus on what is happening now while looking beneath the surface—at recurring patterns, emotional conflicts, formative experiences, and implicit meanings. I draw primarily from psychodynamic thought. In practice, this means tracing how the past continues to circulate through your thoughts, feelings, and actions, with an eye toward greater insight and practical change. I also attend closely to how your inner life and personal history are intertwined with culture and larger systems of belief and power.
This process of self-discovery can be emotionally challenging, but it can also be transformative. Over time, you may begin to make more deliberate choices, build more satisfying relationships, and live with greater openness and vitality.
Who I work with
I work with adults who want to know themselves more fully and examine the motivations and patterns shaping their lives. Many of my clients are professionals balancing demanding careers and complex identities in fields such as medicine, law, academia, public service, the creative arts, and technology.
I have specialized experience working with people of the Global Majority, including those navigating questions of community and cultural identity, as well as the effects of racialization and racism-related stress. My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and welcomes clients of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
You may be seeking support during an important transition, facing a career or life decision, or making sense of a new or changing relationship. Anxiety or depression, or persistent self-criticism tied to a need for external validation, may also bring you to psychotherapy.
Why work with me?
I am board-certified in counseling psychology and licensed as a psychologist in New York, California, and Hawaiʻi. My expertise lies in culturally and sociopolitically responsive psychodynamic psychotherapy with professionals navigating questions of identity, relationships, and change.
Rather than relying on a formula or one-size-fits-all strategy, I draw from a range of clinical, intellectual, and critical traditions. I approach each therapeutic relationship with openness and compassion, listening closely to each person’s lived experience and particular ways of being in the world.
As someone with a varied and unconventional background, I value working with clients whose lives have taken different paths. I am interested in the intersections of culture, gender, race, sexual orientation, and social class. I find inspiration in witnessing people develop their strengths and talents while cultivating their own sense of beauty and freedom. I have often been described as perceptive and intellectually engaged, with a sense of humor that can make the more difficult parts of psychotherapy feel more approachable.
Scholarship & Teaching
Alongside my practice, I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pace University, where my interdisciplinary research examines how racialization and systems of power become embedded in psychological life, shaping identity, relationships, and possibilities for well-being.
My scholarship brings critical ethnic studies and psychoanalytic thought into conversation with empirical psychology. Much of my work centers on Asian American and intersectional experiences, with attention to both the harms of stigma and the conditions that enable people to resist its effects and flourish.
My teaching is guided by a transformative education framework that situates psychological health and healing within cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. I have taught courses in ethics, history and systems of psychology, Asian American studies, and public health, and have provided clinical supervision to graduate students in health service psychology. Across these roles, I encourage students to think critically about how everyday choices can reproduce injustice or create openings for change, and to contribute to more equitable and liberatory forms of care.
Learn more about my research and teaching →
Professional Endorsements
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Andy is exceptional in helping people make sense of what is happening within and outside of themselves so they can find a direction forward in their lives.
David Nguyen, PhD - Licensed Psychologist and Instructor in Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Choi brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his therapeutic approach, in particular his expertise in culturally responsive and LGBTQ-affirming care.
Sabrina Liu, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychology and Licensed Psychologist, California State University, San Marcos
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He is a respected scholar and practitioner in his areas of expertise, providing compassionate, evidence-based services that are integrative of clients' personal and cultural background and tailored to their specific needs.
Alexander Malik Khaddouma, PhD, ABPP - Board Certified Psychologist, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Dr. Choi is kind, compassionate, understanding, and an advocate for social justice. His intellect combined with these qualities make him an outstanding clinician, colleague, and friend.
Oscar Widales-Benitez, PhD, NCSP - Licensed Psychologist, Lucine Center for Trauma and Grief
Ready to begin?
Investing in your psychological health can be among the most rewarding and life-changing decisions you make. I am committed to helping you navigate new pathways toward greater clarity, personal freedom, and a life that feels more fully your own.