Learning to Live With Your Emotions: Awareness, Expression, and Responses

In this reflective and practical workshop, professional counselor and supervisor Dr. Hui-Shiang Chao guides participants in exploring how emotions are formed, shaped, and expressed. We will examine how family, culture, and life experiences influence the way we respond to emotions, especially difficult ones such as sadness, anger, or emotional overwhelm.

In this workshop, you will:

Build greater awareness of your emotional patterns and responses
Learn how emotions are shaped by family, culture, and environment
Recognize common but unhealthy ways of coping with difficult emotions
Apply more compassionate, non-judgmental ways of responding to your feelings
Reflect on your emotional needs and how to express them in healthier ways

This session offers a supportive space for self-reflection, understanding, and learning practical principles to emotional management in everyday life.

About the Speaker

Dr. Hui-Shiang Chao is a licensed counseling psychologist and certified counseling psychologist supervisor in Taiwan, with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, teaching, and supervision. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master’s degree in Counseling Ministry from Denver Seminary. Dr. Chao works with adults, individuals, couples, and families, providing counseling in both English and Mandarin, and brings a deep sensitivity to the cultural, spiritual, and relational contexts that shape emotional well-being.

Grounded in humanistic, psychodynamic, and family systems approaches, Dr. Chao focuses on understanding clients’ internal worlds, family-of-origin influences, and underlying emotional conflicts. She values deep and meaningful change beyond symptom relief, and is experienced in working with emotional distress, panic attacks, depression, trauma, addiction, grief and loss, existential concerns, and a wide range of interpersonal challenges, including intimacy, communication, and boundary issues.

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