Overview
Supervisor information
English and Mandarin
PhD in Clinical Psychology
Licensed Clinical Psychology in California, USA and Taiwan
Individuals, Groups, Organisations, Online, In Person
Chia-Ying Chou, PhD, is the founder and director of the San Francisco Center for Compassion Focused Therapies (SFCompassion), a group psychotherapy practice in California. She began to learn and practice CFT in 2014, and has had the opportunity to be trained and supervised by Dr. Paul Gilbert and Dr. Dennis Tirch. Later in her training process, she has also been supervised by Dr. Tobyn Bell specifically on CFT supervision. As a therapist, Chia-Ying applies CFT as the main therapy approach in her work with clients experiencing different psychological challenges related to trauma, such as hoarding, PTSD/C-PTSD, and interpersonal and attachment difficulties. As a bi-lingual and bi-cultural CFT supervisor, she provides individual and group CFT supervision/consultation to licensed and pre-licensed clinicians in English and Mandarin. Her practice, SFCompassion, hosts an online CFT peer consultation group, CFT Open Home, which supports CFT clinicians from different parts of the world. As a CFT trainer, Chia-Ying is dedicated in offering training to clinicians based in the U.S. and Taiwan. She provides the 3-day CFT introduction training and other advanced and niched training, such as CFT for hoarding in English and Mandarin. She has given training in English through organizations including the Compassionate Mind Foundation, the Psychotherapy Institute, and her practice. She has also offered the three-day CFT introduction training and CFT for hoarding workshops in Mandarin through the Taiwanese Clinical Psychology Association and Pure Mind in Taiwan. Finally, as a researcher and hoarding expert, Dr. Chou has developed a CFT for hoarding group therapy protocol (Chou and DuFrene, 2022). Her group practice incorporates practice-based research, and has been a hub for hoarding and CFT research.