About Dr. Marlynn Wei, MD

Dr. Marlynn Wei, MD, JD is an award-winning, board-certified Harvard- and Yale-trained holistic integrative psychiatrist, psychotherapist, anxiety expert, and certified yoga teacher. Dr. Wei has over 15 years of experience helping hundreds of clients across the country, including clients in New York, California, and Massachusetts. Dr. Wei is the coauthor of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga, a leading LinkedIn Top Stress Management and Mindfulness Voice, and writes for Psychology Today (with over 3.4 million views), Huffington Post, and Harvard Health.

Her boutique private practice specializes on a holistic whole-body complementary approach to treat anxiety and stress, weaving together mindfulness, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed intergenerational healing aimed to enhance post-traumatic growth.

Dr. Wei specializes in treating stress and anxiety, relationship and career issues, and works with clients to build self-esteem, self-confidence, and empowerment. Her philosophy is rooted in the hope to help people find clarity and inspiration in all areas of personal and professional life– to live with authenticity and balance. The work is grounded in helping people nurture personal agency and draws from mindfulness/yoga, psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral skill-building, positive psychology, and psychodynamic psychotherapy to develop conscious awareness of lifelong patterns. She works together to minimize the use of medications through evidence-based lifestyle changes, including physical exercise, natural supplements, nutritional changes, and mind-body skills such as deep breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga. Dr. Wei can prescribe medications, but her approach puts weekly psychotherapy at the center of the work in order to minimize medications.

Dr. Wei specializes in working with professionals, leaders, and executives in high-achieving, high-stress industries, including finance, business, law, technology, innovation, and creative arts and film industry. Dr. Wei integrates principles from positive psychology to help clients navigate challenges of productivity, motivation, and the meaning of success and fulfillment.

Dr. Wei is the recipient of the distinguished Anne Alonso Award for Psychotherapy from Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Wei is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Yale Law School, and served as chief resident at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital psychiatry program. She has been admitted to and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. She has served as senior editor for the Yale Law Journal and editor for the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Caucus on Integrative Medicine and has completed training from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.

Dr. Wei is an award-winning author and has published in numerous academic publications and media, including The Journal of Health Law, Harvard Human Rights Journal, and Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry. She has served as peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation and assistant editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

As an interdisciplinary researcher and artist, Dr. Wei explores the promises and perils of how AI will change us, including artificial empathy, human-AI collaboration, and digital immortality.