Kayoko Yokoyama, PhD
Part-Time Faculty
kyokoyama@wi.edu
Pronouns: she/her

BA International Studies - American University, 1993
MA, EdM, Psychological Counseling - Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996
PhD, Counseling Psychology - Arizona State University, 2003

Dr. Yokoyama is a licensed psychologist in private practice serving a diverse range of individuals including women, immigrants, and people of color through a feminist and evidence-based lens with consideration of sociopolitical dynamics, systemic oppression, collective trauma, and intergenerational healing.

Dr. Yokoyama has over two decades of experience educating and training graduate students. She works with both Master’s students in the Counseling Psychology program and Doctoral students in the Clinical Psychology program at The Wright Institute. She teaches Multicultural Awareness and Sensitivity and Research Methods in the Master’s program and Case Conference in the Doctoral program. She enjoys mentoring and teaching her students and emphasizes cultural and lifelong learning. Her research interests and academic writing focuses on Asian American feminism, Asian American feminist activism, intergenerational healing, and feminist mothering.

In terms of community work, Kayoko values her connection with Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct action, Japanese American social justice advocacy group supporting immigrant and refugee communities. As a Healing Circle trainer, she facilitates intergenerational and cross-community dialogues addressing historical trauma and collective resilience. This work inspires and informs her teaching on decolonizing psychology, trauma, empowerment, and community effervescence.

Dr. Yokoyama was born in Tokyo, Japan and brings her bicultural, international, and feminist perspectives to her teaching, mentoring, clinical work, and advocacy. She is a Fellow of the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association. She completed her Predoctoral training at University of California, Davis and her Postdoctoral training at the University of San Francisco.

She is a dedicated practitioner of yoga, an inconsistent practitioner of meditation, and loves to laugh with her son and take long walks with beloved family and friends.

Professional Memberships:
American Psychological Association
Division 17 – Society of Counseling Psychology
Division 35 – Society for the Psychology of Women, Section 5 – Psychology of Asian Pacific American Women
Division 45 – Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
Asian American Psychological Association