ABOUT VRCAPS
Counseling and Psychological Services
MEET OUR STAFF
The VRCaPS Team of Compassionate Therapists
Kane Tung, Ph.D.
Founder
kane@vrcaps.org
As a father of a child with Autism 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.
N.J. Psychologist License #35SI00571300
Xinyu Sun
Mental Health Fellowship
xsun@vrcaps.org
Xinyu is a fellow in training and a full-time master student in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness at New York University. 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.
Anthony Dimitrion, LCSW RPT
Clinical Director
anthony@vrcaps.org
Anthony Dimitrion specializes in developmentally appropriate therapy services for children and adolescents ages 3-17 that are creative and play-based. Through play and art children are also able to work on developing concrete skills that can support them outside of session. Believing in a team approach to therapy, he regularly incorporates parents through monthly one-on-one parent consultation sessions and weekly check-in sheets and with school staff and other professionals that are important in the child’s treatment. Anthony is expanding his skills pursuing a doctoral degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with a concentration in Child and Adolescent Therapy at Northcentral University.
He has extensive training and supervision in play therapy, child development, and attachment-focused parenting techniques. Some of Anthony’s areas of expertise include: ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, difficulties with peers, academic concerns, disruptive behavior, and LGBTQ+ Youth.
Prior to becoming the Clinical Director at VRCaPS, Anthony was the Associate Program Director and a Mental Health Clinician at a busy outpatient mental health center in New York City.
He strongly believes that when an individual and family are provided a safe and supportive therapeutic environment, they will have the security needed for growth and healing.
N.J. Lic Clinical Social Worker #44SC05864000
Ita Golus, LCSW
Ita earned her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Psychology and Human Relations from Pace University and her Master of Social Work from New York University Silver School of Social Work.
She has over 12 years of extensive experience working with children, adolescents, adults, the eldery, and families and utilizes various techniques and methods during her sessions to meet her clients’ needs and create a positive therapeutic relationship. For Ita, providing her clients with a safe environment to feel comfortable in expressing themselves during sessions is essential to achieving their goals.
Working across different settings, her experience has her equally comfortable working in schools and foster care agencies in addition to the therapy room. She also has experience facilitating parenting workshops that are beneficial and supportive to parents. Ita values patience, assertiveness, and supportiveness which are cornerstones to her style, and every new experience that she approaches is with an open mind and a warm, friendly smile.