Dr. Donovan Wong is dedicated to helping his patients relieve their suffering and he brings a wealth of knowledge and professional expertise to his work. Dr. Wong studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He went to medical school at the University of Southern California, and stayed in Los Angeles to complete his psychiatry residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his residency, he was the Chief Resident of Inpatient Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry. In residency, he was also awarded an APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship, which enabled him to help develop programs on alternative medicine, mindfulness and cross cultural studies, as well as enhance the residency’s language capacity. Dr. Wong is proficient in Spanish and has spent much of his career working with Spanish-speaking populations.

Looking to focus on systems of care and public mental health, Dr. Wong went on to complete a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Columbia University, the country’s most prestigious program of its kind. During his fellowship time in New York City, he worked for the non-profit Project Renewal Inc., where he did outreach in shelters and on the MedVan, a mobile clinic on an RV that travels throughout New York City. He also played an important role in the transformation of these programs and the leadership structure of the organization.

After fellowship, Dr. Wong has mostly worked in leadership roles in both community / public mental health and the startup telehealth world, including with Tamber Health, Doctor On Demand, Minded, Didi Hirsch, Los Angeles County, Solano County, and Butte County.

Dr. Wong is also involved in psychiatry on multiple levels, presenting and publishing nationally, participating in a national psychiatric think tank and psychiatric organizations, and consulting internationally in Spain, China and Korea. He has also been involved in promoting health care parity and reform, meeting with political representatives in Washington D.C. and New York City.

Throughout all of his diverse professional experiences, he has always maintained a strong foundation in therapy and he has studied with international experts in the field at the Southern California Society for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. His commitment to providing therapy led him to establish his private practice where therapy is the focus of his treatment.