Jin Lyu

From 2015 to 2022, Jin Lyu served as Lecturer & Course Developer at Fudan University, where she designed and taught three university-wide courses—open to both undergraduate and graduate students—over seven years:

Twice nominated for the Fudan University Best Teacher Award (2011, 2013).

Her teaching at Fudan reached both undergraduate and graduate students, giving her extensive experience teaching at the master's level. She also recruited and mentored teaching assistants from Fudan's Master of Applied Psychology (MAP) program, training them to design and lead group sessions under her supervision. This hands-on mentorship of MAP candidates gives her an insider's understanding of what applied psychology master's students need—and what makes their training effective.

Since August 2025, Jin Lyu has been a Lecturer & Education Consultant, developing and facilitating training for K–12 educators, vocational institutions, and mental health professionals across China and internationally. Her current courses and workshops include:

Partner institutions include leading schools, colleges, and mental health organizations across China and internationally.

Most psychology instructors teach theory. Jin Lyu teaches what she practices.

She is an actively practicing clinician with:

• 600+ clinical hours delivering individual therapy to college students at Webster University's Counseling & Life Development center
• Co-designed and co-facilitated a 12-week DBT skills group at Webster University—teaching mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness in English, leading live skill demonstrations and guiding group exercises each session. In the mindfulness module, she brought a distinctly Eastern perspective to mindfulness practice, bridging Eastern mindfulness traditions with Western clinical application
• 12 years as a therapist at Fudan University's Student Mental Health Center, providing individual counseling to undergraduate and graduate students

She doesn't just teach therapy—she does it. Her clinical experience shapes everything she teaches.

This dual identity—clinician + educator—means her classroom is filled with case material drawn from actual therapeutic work, not textbook abstractions. When she teaches emotional regulation, she draws on DBT skills she has used in clinical practice. When she discusses therapeutic alliance, she shares what happened in real sessions—what worked, what didn't, and why.

The market has already validated this approach. Jin's courses at Fudan routinely filled to capacity across twelve consecutive semesters, earning consistently high student evaluations and two Best Teacher nominations (2011, 2013)—voted by students, not committees. In a competitive online program landscape, a faculty member who is both academically rigorous and genuinely popular with students is an enrollment asset: students sign up, stay enrolled, and tell others.

Jin's approach is practice-informed and integrative—she treats the classroom as a space where intellectual rigor, clinical skill, and personal growth unfold together. This aligns closely with CIIS's tradition of integral education: honoring multiple ways of knowing, bridging theory with lived experience, and attending to the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.

Her career embodies this integration. Trained in both Eastern and Western intellectual traditions, she moves fluidly between the science of DBT and the wisdom of mindfulness practice, between the structure of evidence-based intervention and the art of therapeutic presence. In her DBT group facilitation, she brought an Eastern perspective to mindfulness that deepened Western clinical application—exactly the kind of cross-cultural synthesis CIIS was built on.

For an online master's program dedicated to transformation, Jin offers more than content expertise: she models the integration she teaches. Students don't just learn concepts—they learn how a practicing clinician thinks, grows, and shows up for others.