Mingjia Chen

Mingjia Chen (she/her) is a pre-licensed professional with a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern University. Through her professional training, Mingjia has worked with individuals, couples and families with a wide range of needs including conflict resolution, child behavior issues and stress management. She particularly enjoys working with families and couples experiencing conflict and communication issues, general stress management, identity exploration, acculturation challenges, etc.

Mingjia is passionate about making the therapy room a space for healing and growth by guiding clients to identify and change patterns of constraining behaviors, thoughts and communication. Being trained in a systemic model, she tailors her treatment to each client’s needs by utilizing methods and tools from a variety of models.

Mingjia’s style of therapy is personable and warm, and she always tries to meet the clients where they are. Having served the underprivileged population in the Community Program at the Family Institute, she is aware of the unique impacts of cultural elements including race, ethnicity, sexual and gender identity, and religious beliefs, and she welcomes her clients to share their life experience with curiosity and openness. She believes that the journey of healing starts with a strong therapeutic relationship, and she collaborates with her clients to find their strengths within in order to achieve their therapeutic goals.

在生活中，你是否有时感到无法自我消化的压力、困扰和焦虑？你是否有时对自我的认知感到困惑，期望有渠道可以帮助你进一步了解自我？在与家人和亲密伴侣的相处中，你是否会为争执不断或疏于沟通而感到心力交瘁？作为心理咨询师，Mingjia希望可以通过倾听、引导和反馈来帮助来访者理解他们所处困境和困境背后的模式，从而促成改变和成长。无论是作为个体或作为家庭和亲密关系中的组成部分，对于外在行为和内在自我的理解都将是疗愈中不可或缺的部分，而Mingjia致力于与来访者一起达成这些理解，并提供相应的工具和对策来帮助来访者走出所处的困境。