Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam recently published a profile of Dr. Anna Yusim, the Yale psychiatrist and executive coach whose work brings together clinical care, leadership, and spiritual inquiry. Written by Mae Cornes, the September 2026 feature looks at how Dr. Anna Yusim supports accomplished women when the lives they have built suddenly stop working, and how those hard seasons can lead to lasting personal and family change.
Supporting High-Achieving Women Through Crisis
The article begins with a picture many successful women will recognize: a thriving career, a family, a packed schedule, and then an event that changes everything. It might be a health diagnosis, the end of a marriage, a child in distress, or the discovery of a long-hidden betrayal. Many of these women keep performing at a high level through it all, so few people around them see how much they are carrying.
The profile explains that Dr. Yusim’s clients have often spent years putting their own needs last. Worry hides behind competence, grief gets postponed, and exhaustion is treated as a time-management problem. A crisis tends to bring that pattern into the open.
Crisis as a Sacred Threshold
Dr. Anna Yusim calls these turning points sacred thresholds: stretches of time when an old identity no longer fits, and a new one has not yet formed. Divorce, burnout, infertility, loss, public pressure, or a child’s mental health struggle can all bring a woman to this point. Rather than viewing the moment only as a breakdown, she helps clients use it to build a life shaped by their own values instead of expectations they inherited.
Carl Jung and Shadow Work
A central part of the article covers Dr. Anna Yusim’s use of Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow, meaning the parts of ourselves we push aside because they once felt unsafe or unwelcome. For women praised mainly for being capable and composed, the shadow may hold unspoken anger, unprocessed grief, or needs they never voiced. Dr. Anna Yusim meets these feelings with curiosity instead of alarm. Anger can point to where a boundary is needed, and exhaustion can show what years of self-neglect have cost. As she puts it, “The women I work with are not fragile.”
The feature also shows where her clinical and spiritual work meet. Her care may include diagnosis, psychotherapy, medication management, and lab testing, while her role as co-founder of the Yale Program on Spirituality, Mental Health and the Brain shapes how she addresses questions of purpose that symptom relief alone cannot answer.
Legacy Work in Families
After the immediate crisis settles, Dr. Anna Yusim often guides clients into what she calls legacy work: looking at what a family passes down emotionally, not only financially. Patterns such as untreated depression, perfectionism, or silence around painful subjects can repeat across generations, and wealth can make them easier to hide. The article describes how this work can lead to more honest conversations with children, firmer boundaries, changes in family roles, and clearer decisions about leadership and succession.
Redefining Strength
The profile closes on the idea that the strength women find after a crisis comes less from control and more from honesty about their own lives. Dr. Anna Yusim sees these quiet, private changes as crowns, earned by walking through hardship without losing sight of who they are.
Read the full article on Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam: The Celebrity Psychiatrist Helping Powerful Women Turn Their Darkest Seasons Into Crowns
