Personal Growth
Empowering clients to create fulfilling and thriving lives
Who am I? What do I want for my life? How can I accomplish my desired life goals and dreams? How can I feel more whole, strong, unique, and fulfilled? How can I have more fulfilling relationships? How do I realize my full potential?
These are just some of the questions that bring people to me. I am passionate about working with clients as they grow emotionally and find more fulfillment, joy, and vitality in their lives.
I work with individual adults and couples on issues of personal and relational growth that center around functioning to our best potential. All of us can develop our ability to think about our life dilemmas in ways that help us achieve our goals and gain more control and understanding of our lives, as well as bring more fulfillment to our relationships. Some areas of focus in our work might include:
- Deepening relationships with people in your life
- Calming reactivity to others
- Clarifying your most important life values and aligning actions with your values
- Understanding and navigating cultural differences
- Thinking through how you can best manage your self in your family and other communities you are part of
- Developing the maturity to successfully navigate important life decisions
In addition, I specialize in working with Asian Americans and their family relationships. Our work may focus on issues such as:
- Ethnic or racial identity
- Cultural values
- Asian adoptee identity
- Inter-generational and multi-generational patterns
- Managing conflict or differences with parents or family
- Navigating friendships and dating or marital relationships
- Balancing personal needs and wants with familial needs and wants
- Managing stress and anxiety
Professional Growth
Empowering clients to create fulfilling and thriving careers
What is the right career path for me? How do I transition to where I want to be professionally? How can I balance work and life priorities successfully? How do I build and manage relationships in the workplace? How can I ensure my career remains rewarding to me?
If you find yourself asking similar questions, I can help. At heart, choosing a career is giving yourself permission to be who you are. Whether you are new to the working world or have worked for many years and are taking another look at where your interests have evolved, it takes courage and strength to do the work of self-discovery and differentiation that enables you to make your best career choices.
My area of expertise is in working with people who want to improve their functioning when it comes to their work lives. Whether that functioning is in the workplace, especially when it comes to the quality of your interactions with others - colleagues, employees, direct reports, bosses or supervisors, boards, other leaders, outside vendors, or the organization you work within, or in terms of creating and growing the career that you dream of.
Executive Coaching
My philosophy of executive coaching is that leaders lead best when they know how to manage and self-regulate their emotions, balancing them with clear thinking that comes from deep knowledge of one's own beliefs, principles, and relationship patterns. I coach executives on how to identify blind spots in their perceptions of themselves, and encourage the kind of growth that allows them to reach their full potential as a leader. Some of the executive leadership skills I have helped people develop include:
- Over-Functioning in the Workplace
- Managing Self as a way of Managing Others
- Developing Executive Presence
Career Development Consultation
I provide confidential, one-on-one sessions to help you with your career issues and goals. These sessions can be used to help you explore your desire for making a career change, overcome fears or other obstacles to making changes, develop your ability to effectively build and maintain relationships in the workplace, think through career decisions, or grow your career management competencies. Some of the career management skills I have helped people develop include:
- Networking and Relationship-Building
- Communication, Presentation Confidence, and Listening Skills
- Visioning and Realizing Career Goals
Asian Adoptee & Adoptive Family Consulting
Mission
Adoption Agency Consultation
Taiwan Adoption
Empower and educate adoptive parents during preadoption and postadoption to enhance family connection and adaptation.
Support adult adoptees and their families through reunification and beyond.
Taiwan Adoption
Adoption Agency Consultation
Taiwan Adoption
We provide parent coaching to adoptive parents in the United States who adopted or are in the process of adopting from Taiwan.
We help parents navigate the complex system of international adoption.
Adoption Agency Consultation
Adoption Agency Consultation
Adoption Agency Consultation
Consultation and coaching of agency staff on important emotional and psychological considerations in preparing birth families, adoptive families, and adoptees for family meetings, reunification, and beyond.
Annie Wang, PhD
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
Adoption Agency Consultation
Annie is originally from Taiwan. Her background focuses on child development, family support, and adoption. She has worked as a consultant for adoption agencies since 2018.
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
We combine our expertise and tailor our services to meet the needs of each individual and family.
You are invited to reach out to schedule a free 30-minute initial consultation to learn more about us and find out whether our services are the right fit for you.
Elayne Chou, PhD
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
Free 30-minute Initial Consult
Elayne is an adoptive parent of a daughter adopted from Taiwan. Her views on adoption, adoption systems, and family functioning have changed greatly through her own parenting experiences, and over the 20 years she has had the honor of working with Asian adoptees and their families.