A career spent in the places people turn to first
Dr. Christine S. Wu was born and raised in San Francisco and is Chinese American. She has worked in counties and county facilities across California, including Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Fresno, Merced, Santa Clara, and Sacramento.
As an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara she began clinical work and behavioral interventions with autistic children. During her graduate studies in Fresno she worked in a public middle school and two non-profit agencies. Her pre-doctoral internship was completed at Augustus F. Hawkins Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center in Los Angeles, working in inpatient and outpatient settings with chronically mentally ill adults, adolescents, and children.
After earning her doctorate, she provided individual and family therapy at Merced County Department of Mental Health, and worked in private practice as a psychological assistant conducting disability evaluations and therapy. In Santa Clara County she served in public schools, a residential facility, a hospital, and non-profit agencies in San Jose, including Gardner Family Care Corporation, Eastfield Ming Quong, and Valley Medical Center. From 2001 to 2005 she was Clinical Director of AchieveKids, San Jose site.
Licensed since 1999, Dr. Wu opened her private practice in San Jose in 2000, moved the practice to the Sacramento area in 2013, and today serves adults exclusively through telehealth.