Leading psychiatric consultation and counselling for Chinese students.

Services are available online and in Chinese to students worldwide.

Services

Psychiatry and counselling

Students can consult a psychiatrist for assessment and clinical advice, work with a counsellor in ongoing sessions, or use both as their needs change.

  • Yoren works with psychiatrists from hospital departments ranked among China’s top ten for psychiatry in Fudan University’s 2023 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking.
  • The team includes psychiatrists who hold the two highest clinical grades in Chinese hospitals (主任医师 and 副主任医师).
  • Counsellors include National Level 2 Psychological Counsellors (国家二级心理咨询师). Some have worked in psychiatric hospitals, and some are qualified counselling supervisors.
Professor Xiangyang Zhang

Professor Xiangyang Zhang

He is Xinghua Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, with previous psychiatry posts at Yale School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine. He has published more than 750 SCI-indexed papers and has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists for five consecutive years.

Dr Liu Shuangchen

Dr Liu Shuangchen

He is a senior psychiatrist at Beijing Huilongguan Hospital and holds China’s highest clinical grade. He has practised psychiatry since 1989, completed more than 2,000 forensic psychiatric assessments and sees patients in a specialist outpatient clinic at the hospital. His clinical work includes persistent insomnia, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and adolescent learning difficulties.

Dr Gao Shiyuan

Dr Gao Shiyuan

He began working at Beijing Huilongguan Hospital in 1990 and became head of a clinical ward in 1996. Since 2005, he has also served students at Tsinghua University’s counselling centre as a psychiatric expert and psychotherapist.

Academic support

PhD tutors and university lecturers from Western universities provide one-to-one subject tutoring in the student’s own discipline. Native English-speaking teachers with substantial experience in academic or research writing teach academic English.

Studying in a second language can make academic work harder and add to psychological distress. Subject tutoring addresses the academic problem. Psychiatric consultation and counselling address the distress.

Yoren recruits PhD tutors, university lecturers and experienced native English-speaking teachers of academic English. Join Yoren →

Resources, tools and reports

Yoren Psyclopedia

75 sourced clinical entries on mental-health conditions and treatments, using ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR where relevant.

Psychological tools

CBT thought records and short guided exercises.

For institutions

Give Chinese students access to leading psychiatric consultation and counselling.

Media

Yoren publishes clinical material on Chinese student mental health overseas, including how language, academic pressure and psychological distress reinforce one another.