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Career Counselor, Anne Chan, PhD, MFT

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Anne Chan, PhD, MFT

Anne Chan

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annechanphd@proton.me
510-209-6598

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15 minute complimentary consultation

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. She currently serves on the Board of the California Career Development Association.

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, find a niche for themselves in the work world, and get unstuck from emotional blocks. 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.

 

My Practice at a Glance

  • Phone or virtual sessions
  • Available weekdays and evenings
  • Payment: Credit card
  • Languages: English

Qualifications

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Counseling Psychology from Stanford
  • M.A., English from University of Washington, Seattle
  • B.A., English from UC Berkeley

Licenses and Certifications

  • Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Specialties and Expertise

  • Clarifying career interests and goals
  • Exploring career options
  • Career pivots
  • Planning for promotion or career advancement
  • Job search strategies and skills
  • Building resume and cover letter
  • Interviewing and salary negotiation
  • Networking
  • Work/life balance or burnout
  • Handling mid-life career transitions
  • Navigating barriers in the workplace
  • Career challenges (i.e., career stagnation)
  • Exploring career options in retirement
  • Career assessments: SkillScan, Strong Interest Inventory, 16PF, Values assessment, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Client Focus

  • Early career employees
  • Mid career employees
  • Late career employees
  • Employees nearing retirement
  • Employees in particular functional areas: Higher education, nonprofit, research, and teaching
  • Career options for PhDs
  • Women employees
  • Employees from historically marginalized racial/ethnic backgrounds
  • LGBTQ employees
  • Employees with disabilities