Tianyi Xie, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Director of Outreach and Prevention Services

Leadership Responsibility:

  • Overseeing and coordinating all aspects of outreach at UCS
  • Promoting mental health awareness and services on campus
  • Developing, coordinating, and evaluating prevention programs
  • Supporting liaison relationship with campus communities
  • Serving as the primary contact for support requests

Education

  • 2020 – Utah State University, Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Combined Program).

Theoretical Approach: 

Areas of Competency:

  • Cultural adjustment and immigration stress
  • Identity development 
  • Eating disorders and body image distress 
  • Anxiety and compulsive disorders
  • Depression
  • Academic skills
  • Stress common for international students
  • BIPOC mental health 
  • LGBTQ+ affirming care
  • Bilingual services (English and Mandarin-Chinese)

Professional affiliations

  • American Psychological Association
  • Association of University and College Counseling Centers Outreach
  • Association of Chinese Helping Professionals and Psychologists – International

Biography

  • As an Asian woman, I value the healing power of safe communal spaces. I am committed to fostering and maintaining connections through collaboration and supporting underserved communities on campus.

Publication:

  • Xie, T.& Galliher, R. V. (2023).Responding to Microaggressions: Social Cost of Bystander Intervention Strategies. The Counseling Psychologist, 51(2), 242-269.
  • Xie, T.& Galliher, R. V. (2018). Acculturation and language use in intimate and sexual relationships among Chinese bilinguals. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 9(3), 227-236.
  • Xie, T.*, Yang, J. P.*, Simoni, J. M., Shiu, C. S., Chen, W. T., Zhao, H., & Lu, H. (2017). Unable to be a Human Being in Front of Other People: A Qualitative Study of Self-Isolation Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in China. Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 24(3-4), 211-222.
  • Nadelson, L. S., Sias, C. M., Matyi, J., Morris, S. R., Cain, R., Cromwell, M., Lund, E. M., Furse, J., Hofmannova, A., Johnson, M., Seegmiller, J., & Xie, T.(2016). A World of Information at Their Fingertips: College Students’ Motivations and Practices in Their Self-Determined Information Seeking. International Journal of Higher Education. 5(1), 220-231
  • Yang, J. P., Xie, T., Simoni, J. M., Shiu, C. S., Chen, W. T., Zhao, H., & Lu, H. (2016). A mixed-methods study supporting a model of Chinese parental HIV disclosure. AIDS and Behavior, 20(1), 165-173.

* Authors contributed equally to the manuscript

Tianyi Xie