Career Counselor, Anne Chan, PhD, MFT
Anne Chan, PhD, MFT
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Background and Experience
Anne’s passion for helping others led her to make a career change from teaching to career counseling. She has worked as a career counselor in a variety of settings, including community agencies and higher education. She was a marriage family therapy intern at the Stanford Faculty and Staff Help Center where she worked with Stanford employees to resolve a variety of work, career and mental health issues. Her Stanford experience also includes being a doctoral student at the School of Education for seven years. She has published extensively on mentoring, cross-cultural issues, and career development.
Counseling Approach
Anne utilizes her training, life experiences, and intuition to guide clients toward their best possible selves in their careers. She absolutely believes in the potential and capacity of people to achieve their goals and dreams.
Her counseling style is warm, caring, compassionate, down to earth, thoughtful and respectful. She provides an individualized plan for her clients and enjoys working collaboratively with people to maximize benefits from career counseling. Combining her expertise in mentoring, counseling, and coaching, she empowers and supports her clients to take the action steps needed to fulfill their career dreams.
Anne Wants Clients to Know
Her passions include helping people make career changes during major life transitions (e.g., after a baby or job loss), identify their strengths, and find a niche for themselves in the work world. She enjoys helping people who feel lost in their work identities or who are seeking new identities in mid-career or in retirement. She loves guiding clients in resume construction and job interview preparation. She also loves working with people seeking creative and artistic jobs and those looking to incorporate meaning and purpose into their lives.
She takes a holistic approach in career counseling which incorporates all facets of her clients' identities, including their racial/ethnic identities, abilities, cultural and religious/spiritual affiliations, families, communities, gender, and sexual orientation.