Zoey Zuo

MA, Doctoral Candidate

Zoey is completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and is in the final stages of her doctoral training. She has completed her doctoral residency training at London Health Sciences Centre and works with children, teens, adults, and older adults. Zoey is committed to providing affirming care for clients from diverse cultural, ethnic, and identity backgrounds.

Zoey has provided therapy and assessment services for many years across a range of settings, including inpatient and outpatient hospitals, rehabilitation centres, university clinics, clinical trials, and private practice. Her training and clinical experience have included London Health Sciences Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre and Neuropsychology Service, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, the UTSC Health and Wellness Centre, the UTSC Therapeutic Interventions for Psychosis Lab, and Forward Thinking Psychological Services®, where she provided therapy and assessments to teens and adults prior to residency.

Zoey has worked extensively with adults and teens experiencing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), including obsessions such as contamination, doubt, symmetry/exactness,  scrupulosity, superstitions, and somatic concerns, as well as compulsions such as cleaning, checking, repeating, counting, collecting, and reassurance seeking. She also has extensive experience supporting clients with OCD-related concerns, including body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) such as skin picking, hair pulling, nail biting, and teeth grinding. She uses evidence-based approaches such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based strategies.

More broadly, Zoey provides integrative, evidence-based, and person-centred therapy tailored to each client’s goals, needs, and context. She works with clients experiencing anxiety and mood disorders, eating disorders, body dysmorphic concerns, ADHD, trauma, insomnia, psychosis, perfectionism, borderline personality disorder, self-harm and suicidality, and relationship or life-transition concerns. She draws from CBT, DBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based approaches, tailoring treatment to what is most effective and meaningful for each person.

Zoey is trained in comprehensive, trauma-informed assessment across the severity spectrum, including psychodiagnostic, personality, cognitive, and neuropsychological evaluations. She is familiar with evidence-based assessment batteries for concerns such as OCD, anxiety and mood disorders, psychosis, ADHD, neurodivergence, personality disorders, complex trauma, and neurocognitive changes.

Zoey takes a warm, collaborative approach to both therapy and assessment. She views clients as the experts in their own lived experience, while offering clinical knowledge and practical tools that can be tailored to what matters most in each person’s unique situation. She values diversity and the many ways people understand and make meaning of their own reality. She aims to create a supportive space where clients can navigate life’s challenges, reduce suffering, and flourish in ways that fit them best.

When she’s not working, Zoey enjoys traveling to new places, experimenting in the kitchen, trying new crafts, watching movies in theatres, and playing board games with friends.