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
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
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
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.