Joel Jin, PhD
Joel Jin, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist. He completed both his PhD in Clinical Psychology (2019) and MA in Theology & Ministry (2018) at Fuller Theological Seminary to understand the integration of psychology and spirituality. He served as Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University for four years, expanding the clinical training program for doctoral students. He was Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington, specializing in primary care behavioral health and the education of family medicine residents.
His clinical interests center on experiential, affect-focused, and attachment-oriented approaches to psychological distress, particularly chronic pain, somatic symptoms, and how unprocessed emotional experience manifests in the body. He draws on Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) as complementary lenses for understanding how people suffer and heal.
As a scholar, Dr. Jin has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles spanning the emotional factors of chronic pain, Asian American mental health, and the stigma of seeking professional mental health services. He has presented his work through APA Division 29, the Washington State Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Association.
As an educator, Dr. Jin is animated by a central question: Who is the therapist becoming? He approaches clinical training not merely as skills acquisition but as a process of formation, one in which self-knowledge and deliberate practice are inseparable from clinical competence. He has contributed two books on deliberate practice in psychotherapy training through the American Psychological Association (2023; 2026, with Tony Rousmaniere).
He joins the Seattle School community with excitement, bringing his work at the intersection of somatic psychology, spiritual formation, and deliberate practice to accompany the next generation of therapists in developing clinical skill and professional identity to make healing possible.