Sandra Diaz was born and raised in Hong Kong when it was still a British colony. From a young age, she was interested in the mind-body-spirit relationship and how healing happens. She decided at age fourteen that she would become a psychologist. At age sixteen, she immigrated to Canada, where she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees. She moved to the United States in the early nineties to pursue graduate school. She completed a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. She completed an internship in San Francisco, working in a community mental health setting in a predominantly Asian American community. She moved to the Boston area in 2004 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at a VA medical center, serving many homeless and disabled veterans, and she continues to work with them today.
