Presentations and workshops

  • Mindfulness
  • Compassion
  • Yoga
  • Wellbeing
  • Meditation (histories, types, benefits)
  • Breathing exercises (types, mental and physical health correlates)
  • Trauma (types, symptomology, treatments)
  • Dissociation
  • Emotion regulation
  • Decolonizing wellbeing
  • Native Hawaiian wellbeing
  • Mind-body research
  • Stress, psychophysiology, and biofeedback
  • Physical activity as a protective factor for mental health
  • Mindful Movement Module (TM)
  • Others …

Undergraduate courses taught

  • Health Psychology
  • Psychology of Emotions
  • The Science of Wellbeing

Book chapters co-authored (available upon request)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Among Ethnoracial Groups
  • Cultural Adaptations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Application of Secular Mindfulness to Asian Americans in the U.S.: Cultural Considerations
  • Bias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 and Psychopathology
  • Toward a Framework for Reporting and Differentiating Key Features of Meditation-and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
  • Cultural Considerations in Establishing Rapport: A Functional Contextualist View on Common Factors

Papers in the works

  • The Unique Role of Mindfulness on the Relationship Between Interpersonal Trauma and Wellbeing for Multiethnoracials
  • A Network Analysis of Embodied Mindfulness: Dissociation and Emotion Regulation Across Ethnic Groups
  • Psychometric Considerations in Measuring Wellbeing for Public Policy for Indigenous Communities in the Context of Climate Change
  • A Scoping Review of Native Hawaiian Wellbeing Theories, Frameworks, and Models
  • Depressive Symptoms and Causes in the Native Hawaiian Community
  • Decolonizing Depression Treatment: A Community-Based Participatory Action Exploration