Yikai Xu, M.Phil. M.Ed., is a clinician, researcher, educator, contemplative practitioner, and mentor devoted to healthy equity and compassion across systems. His expertise centers on Asian indigenous contemplative wisdom, emotion regulation, psychological health, and scalable interventions.

Yikai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Clinical/Counseling psychology program at New York University. He is currently conducting a randomized-controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a brief online intervention that leverages Asian dialectical wisdom for stress reduction. Yikai is also a clinician at the Psychosis Risk Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and an adjunct faculty member at the Counseling for Mental Health Counseling and Wellness master’s program at New York University. Concurrently, Yikai advises and supports organizations (e.g., Mind & Life Institute, Contentment Foundation) to leverage contemplative wisdom to promote individual, community, and system-wide well-being.