Hello, I am Tiong Tan and you can also call me Joshua. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience working with individuals experiencing chronic mental health symptoms. I speak Cantonese and Mandarin fluently, travels globally and I am 100% telehealth. I graduated from Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University, Texas in 2012 as a Global Mission Leadership Scholar. In 2017, I completed a Master of Arts in Theology at Fuller Seminary. During my time at Fuller Seminary, I took the opportunity to sharpen my clinical competence through Fuller School of Psychology. My training, education, and background has prepared me to assist individuals with complex mental health challenges.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Whenever you feel as if everything inside you has broken into a million pieces and you feel things can never be the same again. You think that things are beyond fixing and there is no point trying. Now, every little thing becomes unbearable and overwhelming. Those negative struggles reopen old wounds and cause new ones. You tried burying your pain hoping it would go away. You feel lonely and tormented. You feel exhausted, stressed, and angry all the time. You wonder how much more you can take. You are unsure of who or where to turn for help. Amid this painful journey, you do not have to go through it alone. I am here to assist you to re-channel your energy towards rewriting your story, move forward in life by creating an alternative path, and redeveloping hope and happiness. We will work together to begin the journey of making sense of the trauma, regulating the extreme emotions, restoring precious relationships and discovering new potentials and possibilities. I will assist you in increasing your self-awareness via mindfulness exercises, strengthening coping strategies to regulate intense emotions, arresting negative thoughts, improving your analytical skills, and developing more adaptive thinking to replace negative thoughts.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

As a multilingual therapist and a global citizen, I appreciate the resiliency and complexity of international transitions and have the expertise in navigating intergenerational, intercultural, interfaith, and third culture issues. I can also provide therapy in Mandarin and Cantonese.

About Tiong Tan (Joshua)