Wen Chan

General Psychologist

Wen is a registered psychologist who has experience as a psychologist and researcher working across the lifespan in public and private settings. Tailoring her approach to each individual’s needs, her person-centred practice aims to facilitate deeper self-awareness and resilience in order for one to heal from the past and create healthy future generations and communities. Wen aims to listen, respect, and amplify all voices, especially those that may be underrepresented.

By encompassing a strengths-based and culturally safe approach, Wen strives to create an emotionally safe and collaborative space through her warmth, empathy, and compassion. Wen also believes that building and nourishing a strong therapeutic relationship between client and clinician is the foundation for healing and connection. Wen draws on various therapeutic modalities such as Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, Solution-focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, behavioural activation and play therapy.

Having lived experience as an immigrant, Wen believes that there are complex socio-cultural factors that contribute to one’s identity and mental health. Such that, one may experience a displaced sense of identity when their true sense of self do not meet the expectations and values of the cultural context that they’re in. With warmth and empathy, Wen utilises a person-centred and culturally responsive approach to facilitate a non-judgmental and emotionally safe space where individuals can be curious and explore their emotional world.

Whilst tailoring her approach to each individual’s needs, Wen draws on Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework to help clients build relationships with the parts of themselves within their internal mental system. She also uses other various evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-based interventions, distress tolerance skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and compassion-based approaches. Wen also believes that a collaborative and authentic therapeutic relationship between a client and clinician is an important element of the therapy process. Her special interests are in trauma, self-development and identity issues (including cultural identity), interpersonal conflict and relationship difficulties, and adjusting to significant life changes and transitions.

Wen speaks English (fluent) and Mandarin (intermediate).