About the Owner

Hsin-Chun (or you can call her Joanna) is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist™, EMDR therapist, Level-II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Complex Trauma Trainer in training with Complex Trauma Training Consortium, and former Teaching Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She serves Massachusetts and Texas residents with life transition issues, clinical mental struggles, and developmental/attachment traumas. She provides trauma-informed professional consultations, workshops, and groups to global communities. 

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Born and raised in Taiwan, Joanna respects the uniqueness of individuals from different cultural backgrounds and cares for every client sincerely from her heart. Every individual, regardless of age, was once a child. Through numerous interactions with people and the environment around us, we establish our internal belief systems embedded in the unique familial/social context, and that there is no “one size fits all” approach to treatment. Joanna strives to provide a secure therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for healing and growth since relational wounds also heal through relationships. She meets clients’ needs based on their developmental age and implements evidence-based therapeutic modalities and cutting-edge neuroscience findings. She provides age-appropriate trauma-informed care and evidence-based interventions to enhance psychosomatic connections. 

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Joanna began her academic education by researching ways to improve social welfare systems and hopes to bring about top-down change in society.  However, her heart always calls her to walk into communities to serve individuals, families, and children. Later on, she becomes a strong clinician, delivering precise clinical interventions in sessions to support the person or family in front of her. And yet, with a systemic view, she sees the impacts of complex trauma on the micro (individual level) and macro (societal/global) levels. With a heart to raise awareness of the impacts of complex trauma, she serves as a trained complex trauma trainer with the Complex Trauma Training Consortium, providing workshops to organizations, institutions, schools, and agencies.

 

Therapeutic Specialties:

• Trauma-informed and attachment-focused therapy for adults/young professionals with complex traumas (CPTSD), attachment traumas, foster/adoption issues, and PTSD.

• Anxiety, depression, panic disorder, eating disorders, ongoing stress, chronic pain, faith struggles, relational issues, stress management, pre/postpartum struggles, and parenting issues.

• Play therapy for children aged 5-12 (temporarily not providing this service for health's sake).

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Education:

M.A. Dallas Baptist University—Professional Counseling

M.A. National Cheng-Chi University—Developmental Studies with a concentration on the political science track

B.A. National Cheng-Chi University—Political Science