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Eric was born and raised in Taiwan and he received his bachelor’s degree in Chinese from National Taiwan Normal University. He taught Chinese in a high school in Taipei before coming to the U.S. to pursue his graduate degrees. He received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University. Since joining Fordham in 1995 in the Division of Psychological and Educational Services (PES), he has served as PES Division Chair (2003-06), Vice Chair (2019-20) and Interim Chair (2020), and as Training Director of the PhD Counseling Psychology program (2010-12). He currently coordinates the mental health counseling master’s program.

Eric’s current professional and research interests center on group counseling and stigmatized identities of marginalized individuals, and, in particular, undocumented immigrant students and LGBTQ individuals, from a social justice perspective. He is a national leader in the field of cultural diversity in small groups, as reflected in his professional presentations and publications. To date, he has mentored more than 30 doctoral dissertations. He has served on the editorial board of several counseling and psychology journals, including, among others, the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Counseling and Development, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, and Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, for which he also previously served as an associate editor.

Eric serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy (Division 49 of the APA) where he also chairs the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee and hosted in 2020 a series of 6 diversity presentations in groups (p. 8). Eric has been the recipient of several research grants and awards. He was awarded in 2016 Fellow status with APA, Division 49, from which he was also honored with the Presidential Award at the APA’s 2020 annual meeting. (See citations from APA Div. 49 President Cheri Marmarosh here. ) The Presidential Award is given to a member who has made unusual and outstanding contributions to the Division. He currently serves as the project director for a project funded through a $300,000 grant from Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to provide free virtual counseling to children and youth in predominantly Black, Latino, and immigrant communities in the Bronx. He is one of the New York State's Victim Service Academy Training Course Instructors for 2021.