Cathy CHEN

Personal Motto

• All of your feelings are valid, they are telling you something important.

Professional Expertise

• Child and Adolescent Psychology: Psychological assessment and treatment for emotional disorders, interpersonal difficulties, and learning issues in children and adolescents aged 2-18.
• Couples and Family Counseling: Relationship adjustment, marital intervention, and family function enhancement.
• Adult Psychology: Support for anxiety, depression, career burnout, interpersonal conflicts, self-growth exploration, and psychological support for sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+).
• Developmental and Behavioral Disorders: Comprehensive psychological interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and emotional disorders.

Educational Background

• Systematically studied clinical psychology, psychiatry, and developmental educational psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels in France.
• Graduated from the University of Caen Normandy, France, in 2018.
• Completed undergraduate studies in Medical English and Applied Psychology at Southern Medical University in 2012.

Clinical Experience

• Work experience at Shenzhen Children’s Hospital.
• Provided adult psychotherapy at private psychological clinics.
• Over 8,000 hours of clinical experience in both China and France.
• Five years of overseas work and study experience.
• Three years of work experience in a tertiary hospital.