ABOUT VRCAPS
Counseling and Psychological Services
MEET OUR STAFF
The VRCaPS Team of Compassionate Therapists and Staff
Kane Tung, Ph.D., CASDCS
Founder, Clinical Director
kane@vrcaps.org
Zocdoc rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
As a father of an Autistic child and Staff Psychologist for one of the premier centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities in Westchester, NY: Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS), Dr. Kane Tung has extensive personal and professional experience managing and bringing fulfillment to individuals and caregivers of Developmental Disabilities. Kane’s style was also profoundly shaped by his years of work with Older Adults at Long Island Jewish Hospital and nursing homes as he specialized in Grief and End of Life cases bringing all events of a client’s life together to make sense of it honestly and genuinely. It was during that time he first came up with integrating Virtual Reality with therapy to the benefit and wonder of his clients.
Forming VRCAPS, Kane is excited to be marrying his clinical practice and wide spectrum of experiences from being a Producer at SyFy Channel and SONY, as well as a newspaper journalist and playwright to his considerable work with the early Anime and Gaming community.
Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder
Clinical Specialist
N.J. Psychologist License #35SI00571300
N.Y. Psychologist License #021367
Melissa Ronga, LCSW, LCADC
Supervising Therapist, M.A., LCSW, LCADC
melissa@vrcaps.org
Melissa is a licensed clinical social worker in NJ with more than 10 years of experience, hailing from Rutgers School of Social Work. She specializes in substance use but have worked with many other issues as well, from depression, anxiety, to relationship issues, family conflicts with extensive experience working with adult male groups in agency settings, Melissa has developed insights in this group who are often ignored in the mental health field.
Integrating different techniques, Melissa takes a warm and custom-fitted approach to therapy to empower clients to explore a better version of their life.
She endeavors to create a space for the client to feel safe and empowered. Instead of direct guidance, Melissa helps clients to find coping strategies that best suit their unique situations.
NJ Lic #44SC05803500
Chen Peng, LPC
Supervising Therapist, LPC
chen@vrcaps.org
Chen hails from New York University with her own multicultural background providing bilingual counseling services in English and Chinese for adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. She sees therapy as a collaborative journey with clients towards a more thriving and satisfactory life state and practices a person-centered, humanistic approach that is integrated with other evidence-based strategies such as: Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with a balance between Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapy. Chen has extensive experience in working with anxiety, depression, alcohol and substance use, trauma, self-esteem, cultural adjustment and developmental difficulties.
NJ LPC License #37PC00858900
NY LMHC License # 012342
Oluwatimilein Bamgbola
Counseling Intern
obamgbola@vrcaps.org
Oluwatimilein is a counseling intern attending Montclair State University’s Counseling Program, specializing in Clinical Mental Health. With a combination of being raised by two Nigerian immigrants and living in different regions of the United States, Oluwatimilein uses these experiences to influence how she works with different individuals. She is interested in working with children, adolescents, and adults from diverse backgrounds to aid them with any difficulties they face that may be influenced by systemic hardships.
While working with you, Oluwatimilein will center on empowering you with tools to address any stressors or obstacles you are currently facing in your journey.
Xinyu Sun, LAC
Assistant Clinical Director, Mental Health Counselor
xsun@vrcaps.org
Xinyu is a Mental Health Counselor graduate from The Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at NYU. She has had a diverse cultural experience growing up in mainland China, living in Hong Kong for four years, and now studying at NYU, giving her a focus on diversity and working with individuals’ unique experience in their sociocultural contexts as well as through different cultural and life experiences.
She has a focus on identifying where you are in your life journey and believes that the therapy room is not only a safe environment for clients to process their past experiences but also a place to work on the here-and-now. Xinyu is able to conduct therapy in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
NJ Lic #AC-GTL-20-01671
Clarice Perdomo, LPC
Supervising Therapist, M.A., Ed.S., LPC
clarice@vrcaps.org
Clarice Perdomo graduated with a Masters in Professional Counseling/ Education Specialist (Ed. S.) degree from Seton Hall University and has her licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of New Jersey. Clarice has worked with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with different life challenges, depression, anxiety, trauma, and anger. She is bilingual and has experience working with Spanish-speaking clients and families.
Clarice believes that therapy is much more than applying clinical principles and methods, it is building a therapeutic relationship with clients centered on empathy and unconditional positive regard enabling healing and growth.
Whether you’re struggling with personal, professional, or familial issues, Clarice works to empower and guide each client towards wellness while accommodating to each person’s needs. Clarice offers a growth promoting environment, in which clients feel comfortable to open up about their inner-most thoughts and feelings.
NJ Lic #37PC00683000
Indira Totaram
Counseling Intern
indira@vrcaps.org
Indira is an intern attending Lesley University’s Mental Health Counseling program with a specialization in Dance/Movement Therapy. Throughout her life, Indira has leaned into the benefits of the expressive arts and movement as a therapeutic means of coping and promoting well being in one’s life. As movement is one of our first languages and how we first begin to express ourselves, the mind-body connection is powerful to the therapeutic process. She believes that a combination of talk therapy coupled with creative arts can be beneficial to one’s ability to cope and heal.
Indira believes that art therapy can benefit a wide range of individuals to help them create connection, clarity and overall mental and physical well being
Maggie He
Counseling Intern
maggie@vrcaps.org
Maggie is a mental health counselor trainee pursuing her master’s degree in the Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness program at NYU. Maggie provides both English and Mandarin therapy services. Growing up internationally, she values cultural inclusiveness and aims to serve better and advocate for clients’ mental health needs in different historical and cultural contexts.
Maggie believes each person has their own potential and unique way of living, which leads to her curiosity about the human life narrative. Through the therapeutic relationship, she would like to provide a supportive and warm environment to help clients visualize even a small accomplishment that proves their potential. Maggie believes that collaborating with the clients allows them to practice strategies for abating psychological symptoms and preventing future problems by learning from their personal life narratives.