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Dr. Timothy J. Nguyen, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist and therapist in California with a doctorate in clinical psychology from California Southern University and a master’s in social welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has over a decade of combined clinical experience in forensic, academic, and health clinic settings, and has completed ICEEFT’s official Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) externship and core skills training. He also brings non-clinical experience from tech, security, retail, automotive, and service industries, helping him understand a wide range of client backgrounds. He identifies as an Asian-American, Vietnamese-American male with he, him, his pronouns. For more details on background and credentials, visit Dr. Tim’s full bio.

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