Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

23. Lee, J., Mize, G., Pili, A., Budge, S.L., Tebbe, E. (In Press). “I felt seen in ways I never had before”: What and how psychotherapy change occurs for Two Spirit, transgender, and nonbinary people of color in Psychology of Radical Healing informed psychotherapy. The Counseling Psychologist.

22. Jaipuriyar, V., Behari, K., Rashkovsky, K., Girard, R., Sherman, A., Chasten, N., Epshteyn, G., Lee, J., Helminen, E. C., & Scheer, J. R. (In Press). Brief transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy and expressive writing for hazardous drinking and posttraumatic stress symptoms among sexual and gender minority adults: Pilot trial protocol.

21. Lee, J., Domínguez, S. Jr., Norton, M., Richards, K., Turner, Y., Budge, S.L. (In Press). Let’s find a sweet spot to co-conspire: Using community-based participatory research to increase access to affirming psychotherapy for transgender people of color. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

20. Lee, J., Lindley, L., Lee, H. (In press). Psychometric characteristics and validation of the Transgender Identity Survey in a Korean trans and nonbinary sample: A measure to assess internalized transnegativity. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

19. Lee, J., Barr, S. M., Gloria, A., Roberts, T., Budge, S. (In Press). Transness is our salve: How Trans identity facilitates healing from relational trauma with parental figures. Special Issue: Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress among 2SLGBTQIA+ Individuals and Communities, Journal of Traumatic Stress. 

18. Cosner, C., Higgins, K., Banasiak, E., Lee, J. (In Press) Addressing Trauma among Latine Immigrant Transgender and Nonbinary Youth: A Clinical Case Study. Psychiatric Annals.

17. Lee, J., Gao, S., Norton, M., Domínguez, S., Tebbe, E. A., & Budge, S. L. (2025). Understanding psychotherapy goals of two spirit, trans, and nonbinary people of color in a culturally responsive psychotherapy. Journal of counseling psychology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000838

16. Lee, B. & Lee, J. (2025). Pushed out, pushing back: Korean transgender and nonbinary people’s job search experience. Journal of Career Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/10690727251379448

15. Domínguez, S., Jr., Matsuno, E., Adames, H. Y., Mosley, D. V., Richardson, J. M., Lee, J., Norton, M., & Budge, S. L. (2025). Building and practicing anticolonial psychotherapy: Using the psychology of radical healing to address the coloniality of gender. American Psychologist, 80(4), 603–617. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001430

14. Budge, S.L., Tebbe, E.A., Lee, J., Matsuno, E., & Lindley, L. (2025). The Healing through Ongoing Psychological Empowerment (HOPE) telehealth intervention with Two Spirit, Transgender, and Nonbinary clients of color in the United States: An open clinical trial feasibility and implementation analysis. JMIR Formative Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/64477

13. Budge, S.L., Tebbe, E.A, Lee, J., Lindley, L., Domínguez, S. Jr., Matsuno, E. (2025). Longitudinal outcomes of an open psychotherapy clinical trial with two spirit, transgender, and nonbinary clients of color. Transgender Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2024.0149

12. Tebbe, E. A., Matsuno, E., Lee, J., Domínguez, S., Jr., & Budge, S. L. (2025). Implementation and evaluation of the gender resilience, resistance, empowerment, and affirmation training (GREAT) pilot program. Psychotherapy, 62(1), 32–43. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000552

11. Norton, M., Lee, J., Lindley, L. (2024). Whose voice matters: A critical analysis of gatekeeping and ethical violations towards transgender and nonbinary population. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000772

10. Lee, J., Kim, H., Budge, S.L. (2024). Psychological assessment for gender-affirming care in transgender and nonbinary youth: The companionship model. Harvard Review of Psychiatry.https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000404

9. Lindley, L., Lee, J., Buhr, B., McKellips, M. (2024). Gender affirming medical interventions and gender dysphoria: Qualitative exploration of messages and experiences. The Counseling Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000241305830

8. Lee, J., Hoyt, W. T., Budge, S.L. & Lee, B. (2024). Mediators of parental attachment and internalized transnegativity for Korean transgender and nonbinary people. The Counseling Psychologist, 52 (8). https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000241299766

7. Lee, J. & Lee, B. (2024). Korean transgender and nonbinary workers’ development of critical consciousness through interpersonal relationships at work: A grounded theory. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000761

6. Lindley, L., Lee, J., Norton, M., Budge, S.L. (2024). Sociocultural messages about gender dysphoria (dis)align with the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary individuals: A qualitative study. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01460-7

5. Budge, S.L., Lee, J., Domínguez, S. Jr., Tebbe, E. (2023). Using the companionship model when writing referral letters for transgender and nonbinary adults. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000684

4. Budge, S.L., Shoenike, D., Lee, J., Norton, M., & Sinnard, M.T. (2023). Transgender and nonbinary patients’ psychotherapy goals: A secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 159. 82-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.01.027

3. Pyo, S., Lee, S., Jang, A., Lee, J., Lee, E., & Yang, E. (2022). Factors influencing the sexual identity formation of sexual minority (LGB) in Korea: A qualitative meta-summary. Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues, 28 (2), 83-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2022.5.28.2.241

2. Budge, S.L., Lee, J., Lindley, L. (2020). Therapie mit transmaskulinen klienten (Therapy for transmasculine clients). Psychotherapie im Dialog. 21(04). 52-56. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-0987-5851.  

1. Lee, M., Kim, G., Lee, J., Vo, H., & Lee, S. M. (2020). The effects of academic stress and academic failure tolerance on academic burnout among college students: Moderated mediation effects of interpersonal stress. Journal of the Korea Convergence Society, 11(2), 175-185. https://doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2020.11.2.175.

Submitted for Publication

5. Lee, J., Eom, Y., Shin, H., Rider, N., Lee, H. (In Review). Reimagining gender-affirming assessments: transgender and nonbinary people’s desires for accessible, inclusive, and just practices in Korea.

4. Lee, J., Eom, Y., Shin, H., Lee, H. (In Review). “A test to pass”: Korean transgender and nonbinary experiences of psychiatric gatekeeping. Submitted to the Journal of Counseling Psychology.

3. Lee, J. & Lee, B. (In Review). Same worker, different reading: Gendered and cissexist repositioning of Korean transgender and nonbinary people at work. Submitted to the Gender and Society.

2. Lee, J., Barr, S. M. (In Review). Research as a site of healing: Healing-centered research praxis for community-centered trauma research with transgender and nonbinary communities. Invited submission to the Counseling Psychologist special issue, “Critical Perspectives on Counseling Psychology Research: Unlearning Status Quo Research to Increase Real World Relevance and Impact”

1. Lee, J., Norton, M., Adames, H. Y., & Budge, S. L. (In Review). Beyond the individual: Radical healing in critical psychotherapy practice for transgender and nonbinary people of color. Invited submission to the Journal of Counseling Psychology special issue, “Critical Psychology for Critical Times: Psychology’s Need to Shift Its Frame.”

Manuscripts in Progress

Lee, J., Eom, Y., Shin, H., Lee, H. (in progress). Information sources, referral barriers, and provider decision-making in gender-affirming care: experiences of Korean transgender and nonbinary people.

Lee, J., Norton, M., Adames, H. Y., & Budge, S. L. (in progress). Operationalizing radical healing in psychotherapy: Developing a qualitative observational coding framework for psychotherapy with trans and nonbinary people of color.  

Lee, J. (invited). Strengths-based approaches to managing political stress and discrimination in LGBTQ+ populations. Psychiatric Clinics, special issue on Gender and Sexuality. Manuscript due February 2027.

Lee, J., Barr, S. M, Roberts, T. (in progress). Using grounded theory in a grounded theory way.

Lee, J., Barr, S. M., Alberta. G., Budge. S. (in progress). We broke the cycle: How transgender and nonbinary people facilitate intergenerational trauma healing and family repair. 

Lee, J., Barr, S. M., Alberta. G., Budge. S. (in progress). Understanding types of parental harm among transgender and nonbinary people experience relational trauma with parental figures.

Lee, J., Barr, S. M., Alberta. G., Budge. S. (in progress). Interpersonal and intrapersonal impacts of relational trauma with parental figures among transgender and nonbinary people.

Lee, J., Barr, S. M., Alberta. G., Budge. S. (in progress). Chosen boundaries: The when, how, and impact of distancing from parental figures among transgender and nonbinary people.

Lee, J., Rider, N., Gendernalik, M., Kim H., Lee, H. (in progress). Developing Korean practice guidelines for gender-affirming assessment and referral letter writing with transgender and nonbinary people.

Lee, J., AhnAllen, C., Budge, S., Kim, H. (in progress). From gatekeeping to companionship: Reimagining gender-affirming surgery referral letter writing as clinical support.

Lee, J., Sheer, J. (in progress). Feasibility and acceptability of a randomized controlled trial of expressive writing treatments for trauma-exposed sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals.

Scheer, J. R., Epshteyn, G., Weiss, N., Behari, K., Lee, J., Helminen, E. C., Jackson, S. D., Batchelder, A. W., & Sullivan, T. P. (in progress). Daily PTSD symptom severity and negative affect among trauma-exposed sexual minority women and transgender and gender-diverse people: The impact of minority stressors and LGBTQ+ community belonging.

Hoff, R., Rashkovsky, K., Lee, J., Scheer, J. R. (in progress) Understanding intersectional sexism among sexual minority women, transgender, and nonbinary people of color. 

Lee, J., AhnAllen, C. (in progress). Supporting trans and nonbinary adults through sociopolitical stress: A CBT and mindfulness-based group therapy model.

Book chapters

2. Garrison, Y. G. & Lee, J. (in revision). Community-based approaches from a psychology of working perspectives. In D. L. Blustein & K. L. Autin (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Psychology of Working (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press

1. Parmenter, J. G., Lee, J., Goldbach, C., Lindley, L., Pease M. (in press). Transgender and Gender Expansive Affirming Care and Advocacy. APA Counseling Psychology Handbook.

 Booklets

7. Domínguez, S., mcneill, j., Lee, J., Norton, M., Budge, S.L. & Trans CARE Collaborative (2025), illustrated by ggggrimes. En La Comunidad Confiamos: Sanación Radical, Esperanza Radical. Access zine here.

6. Lee, P., Wallner, G.K., Mohan, S., Lee, J., Budge, S.L. & Trans CARE Collaborative (2026), illustrated by gggrimes. How we hold us: QTBIPOC-led therapy as a practice in solidarity. Access zine here.

5. Lee, P., Wallner, G.K., Mohan, S., Lee, J., Budge, S.L. & Trans CARE Collaborative (2026), illustrated by gggrimes. Building community led mental health support for trans people of color. Access zine here.

4. Lee, J., Barr, S (2025). Transness is Our Salve: Trans People’s Experiences of Healing from Parental Trauma. A collaborative zine co-created with research participants, combining accessible language, participant artwork, and original illustrations to share themes of healing and resilience. Printed and distributed 1,000 physical copies to participants, community members, and LGBTQ community centers nationwide. Access zine here.

3. mcneill, j.n., Lee, J., Norton, M., Budge, S., & Trans CARE Collaborative (2025). In Community We Trust: Radical Healing, Radical Hope! A zine for the community explaining the research process of Healing through Ongoing Psychological Empowerment (HOPE). Wrote the contents for the zine in an accessible language and coordinated its dissemination. (Illustration by ggggrimes.) https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4dc0d0fe0c.html#page/2

2. Choe, D. & Lee, J. (2021). Making Korea Trans Affirming: Interviews with Trans Affirming Church, Army, School, Workplace Organizations around the World. Korean Transgender Rights Organization (JOGAKBO). In collaboration with Affirm United, SPART*A, GLSEN, Workplace Pride.

1. Lee, J. (2019). Our Own Internalized Transnegativity. In Korean Transgender Rights Organization’s Annual Journal, 3, 10-15.