Maha Y. See has been a community worker for 30 years. He founded Myanmar Clinical Psychology Consortium (MCPC) in 2017 and is its program director. He founded Community Mental Health Consulting International (CMHCi) in 2021 for international collaboration in mental health education, services, and research.
Maha started in community mental health in 2006 in inner city Oakland, California, with refugees from Burma. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he has worked with individuals from diverse cultural and international backgrounds from the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Maha has worked with clients across lifespan from 6 to 86 years of age. His clients primarily belong to vulnerable and marginalized populations and the majority have experienced trauma. He has worked in trauma recovery programs for refugees, asylees and asylum seekers, survivors of assault and violence, and patients with traumatic brain injury.
In addition to clinical experience, Maha’s experience includes teaching, training, mentoring, research, and advocacy. He has extensive management experience with programs and services in mental health in Myanmar, Singapore, and the US. This experience includes needs assessment, psychoeducation, health education, public health outreach, media, research through community projects, targeted training, design, development, and delivery. From 2003 to 2006, he worked in health education and program management in a primary care setting in Los Angeles, CA. For fifteen years prior to 2003, he managed multicultural media projects in New York for global companies, including in the health services industry.
Maha is an American of Burmese and Chinese Singaporean heritage.
He has PsyD in Clinical Psychology (CSPP, SF),
MS in Training and Learning/Instructional Technology (NYIT, NY),
MA in General Psychology (NYU, NY), and BA in Psychology (NYU, NY).
