Welcome! My name is Huong Diep (pronounced Hong Depp), and I’m a Wealth Psychologist, Certified Financial Therapist™, and founder of Wealth and Mind. I work primarily with women, especially women of color, and their families at the intersection of money, identity, culture, relationships, and major life transitions.

My training in clinical psychology, child and adolescent development, family systems, and financial psychology shapes how I understand the often-unspoken forces behind financial decisions: family expectations, cultural values, caregiving roles, inherited beliefs about success and security, and the responsibilities that can come with creating, inheriting, or managing wealth.

I come from a family history shaped by both entrepreneurship and displacement. Before my family fled Vietnam, earlier generations on both sides built livelihoods through family-run trade and small businesses. War and political upheaval disrupted many of those opportunities, and I was later born in a refugee camp and grew up watching my family navigate economic uncertainty, sacrifice, adaptation, and upward mobility.

That history deeply informs my interest in the questions many women face as their financial lives change: What do I owe my family? What does success mean to me? How much am I allowed to want? What do I want to carry forward and what am I ready to do differently?

These questions can become especially complex for women whose lives span cultures, generations, and changing socioeconomic circumstances. Financial success may bring greater freedom while also creating new expectations around caregiving, generosity, achievement, independence, belonging, and responsibility to family.

My perspective is also shaped by years of living and working internationally, including extensive experience with the U.S. Foreign Service and globally mobile communities. Fluent in English and Spanish and conversational in Vietnamese, I bring a cross-cultural lens to women and families whose experiences of money, identity, and responsibility may span countries and generations.

My work helps clients better understand the stories, relationships, and cultural influences shaping their financial lives, communicate more openly with the people who matter to them, navigate major transitions, and make decisions that reflect both where they come from and where they want to go.

In 2026, I was selected as one of the American Psychological Association’s 100 Psychologists Rising for my work at the intersection of psychology and wealth. I am also a member of the Purposeful Planning Institute (PPI) and am pursuing advanced training in family wealth through the Family Firm Institute (FFI).

Wealth and Mind provides non-clinical coaching, consultation, education, and speaking and is separate from my clinical practice.