Joey Fung

Joey Fung, Ph.D. is the director of the Travis Research Institute and associate professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She first joined School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy as an assistant professor in 2012. She brings her expertise in parenting, parent-child relations, mindfulness, and culture and child psychopathology. Together with students and colleagues, she is conducting research on school-based prevention intervention for ethnic minority youths, spirituality and mindfulness meditation, and identifying nontraditional delivery systems of mental health care in international settings.

Specifically, at the Thrive Center for Human Development, Dr. Fung has focused her efforts in creating mindfulness resources and sharing practices that help ground the mind and body. Her work has been published in professional journals including the Journal of Family Psychology, Behavior Therapy, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.