Evon Chiu / Director

~  Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway.  ~

Education 

  • Harvard University, Women of Color Leadership Program 2024   
  • University of San Francisco, M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology
  • California State University-San Jose, B.A. in Psychology, minor in Sociology
  • National Taiwan University   (history major) 

   



 Areas of Specialization

  • Life Coaching
  • Expat & Immigrant Mental Health
  • Life Transition & Cultural Adjustment
  • Family of Origin
  • Cross-Generational Trauma
  • Multicultural Couples Counseling
  • Third Culture Kid
  • Youth Support
  • Coaching/Counseling/Supervision for Mental Health Professionals  

Professional Experiences

  • Founder of Taiwan Multicultural Counseling Association www.taiwanmca.org
  • Taiwan Coordinator of USA's Taiwan Psychology Network
  • Intern Counselor at City of Fremont Youth & Family Services, California
  • Founder & Director of Counseling at Junyi Experimental School (G1-G12), Taitung, Taiwan
  • Telephone Counselor at Santa Clara County Crisis Line, California
  • Bilingual Counselor at Academy of Art University, California
  • Adult Life Coach (age 18-55) at Devry University, USA online
  • Intervention Specialist for autistic children and family at Aspiranet Family Intervention Program, California

[Online Life Coaching for International Clients]

        A significant part of my career now is providing transition, leadership and relationship coaching. I have had the benefit of receiving three years of comprehensive and innovative training from a Coaching Institute in San Francisco with over 3000 client coaching hours. I have also been trained by International Coaching Federation accredited institutions. Through online sessions, I have coached a wide range of clients from many different countries with backgrounds as international students, managers and business owners, engineers, professionals in transition, and people who feel therapy is not quite what they need at this stage of life.
        Coaching involves elements of counseling, but is more short-term and structured, present & future-focused, goal-oriented, and outcome-based. A coach would partner with clients to develop a plan, identify obstacles that are holding them back, motivate clients to make the most of their strength, and pinpoint any resistance to change. Clients are viewed as already whole when entering a coaching relationship.
         Coaching can benefit people who are looking for guidance in confidence, career change, self-worth and esteem, work-life balance, relationships, finding purpose, health, emotional intelligence, a significant life change, and much more.
    

[Psychotherapy for International Clients]

Licensure/Certification

  • Taiwan Counseling Psychologist License 
  • Taiwan Supervisor License 
  • Certificate of Telephone Counseling, Bill Wilson Center, CA
  • Certificate of Domestic Violence Counseling, Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, CA

Orientation and Philosophy

        My approach to counseling is an eclectic blend of person-centered, psychodynamic, family systems theory, positive psychology and AEDP approach. I have lived and worked in 6 different cities in the United States for a total of 10 years in my younger days. As a third-culture kid myself, therapeutic attunement often happens when working with youth, adult and couples on the collectivism-individualism spectrum.
        The populations I often work with are expats in Taiwan, Asian Americans starting a new life in Taiwan or abroad, cross-cultural couples, international students, Third Culture Kids, LGBT spectrum, and so on. Over the years, I have adapted a culturally sensitive model in working with diverse backgrounds: graduates of elite universities struggling with mental health issues, adult children of under-privileged families, Silicon Valley's high-tech workers, first and second-generation immigrants, youth in transition, retired professionals and aboriginal youth in eastern Taiwan.
        A person's worldview can be influenced by a variety of factors, including culture, education, early childhood experiences, family upbringing and major life events. Clients are encouraged to navigate their own healing maps. All humans have a remarkable capacity for self-healing; in every breakdown, there is an opportunity for a breakthrough. I am inspired again and again by stories of transcending the darkness and embracing the new. 

Please note:

  • Sliding scale service is available for clients with aboriginal and Southeast Asian backgrounds, as well as mental health professionals. Please contact the staff for more information. Thank you! 
  • Individual therapy/coaching is 50minutes per session 
  • Couple's therapy/coaching is 80 minutes per session 

 

 

Regular Sessions

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Session without NHI
4000
Online Session
4000
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Couple Therapy

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Session without NHI
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5200
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