Hoi Yan Jasmine Chan
(Registered Social Worker, OCSWSSW, Canada)
Jasmine is a registered social worker providing counselling and psychotherapy. She is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and brings over 25 years of experience in counselling.
She began her career after graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 1999, working as a social worker with families, youth, and children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds through times of transition, struggle, and crisis. Over the years, Jasmine has supported thousands of clients. She spent 18 years at a family service centre in Hong Kong, where she also served as Assistant Director for three years, supervising social workers. She later relocated to Toronto to continue her psychotherapy practice.
Jasmine specializes in supporting clients experiencing depression, anxiety, complex trauma, and relationship challenges, including couple, parent-child, intergenerational, and family dynamics. Her approach is compassionate, mindful, and relational. She works primarily from an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), trauma-informed, and family systems perspective, and offers Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) as a distinct, evidence-based treatment for trauma.
Since 2016, Jasmine has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and is a Stage 5 teacher with Oxford Mindfulness (UK).
In addition to her clinical work, Jasmine provides clinical supervision for psychotherapists and counsellors. As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor Candidate working under the mentorship of an Approved Supervisor, she supports clinicians in their professional development, their pursuit of AAMFT Clinical Fellow designation, and their ongoing clinical growth.
In her personal life, she enjoys family moment with her two teenage children. She finds hiking and cooking to be therapeutic activities that help rejuvenate her inner well-being.
She is open to incorporating clients’ spirituality or faith into therapy at their request. If you are seeking personal growth, insight, reflection, relief from suffering, or a deeper reconnection with your inner self and loved ones, Jasmine is here to support you.
Language
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Education and Credentials
- Bachelor of Social Work, University of Hong Kong (1999)
- Master of Social Sciences – Social Work, University of Hong Kong (2004)
- Master of Marriage and Family Therapy, Alliance Bible Seminary (2012)
- Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW# 840416)
- American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy – Clinical Fellow ID 142448
- Oxford Mindfulness Stage 5 Teacher
Relevant Training
- EMDR Basic Training (Thrives Training and Publications)
- Fundamentals of Supervision course for fulfilling the educational requirement toward the AAMFT Approved Supervisor designation.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship and Core skills 1-4 (ICEEFT)
- EFIT Essentials (ICEEFT)
- Foundation Course for teaching MBCT (The Oxford Mindfulness Centre and the Hong Kong Center for Mindfulness)
- MyMind Advanced Teacher Training (For kids with ADHD/Autism and their parents) (The University of Amsterdam and the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Advanced Teacher Training in Mindful Parenting, by Prof. Susan Bogels from the University of Amsterdam
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training at the University of Hong Kong
- Child-Centered Play Therapy Training (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
