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Wendy
Kou has lived in Hong Kong, Canada and the United States, and she
speaks and writes fluently in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
Ms. Kou graduated from the University of Calgary in Canada with
a degree in Psychology, and furthered her education with a Master's
degree in Marital and Family Therapy with a specialization in the
art therapy modality from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Ms. Kou's education at Loyola Marymount University has given her
a strong foundation to integrate her art backgrounds and to use
art processes to provide psychotherapeutic services to clients,
including children, adolescents, adults and families. The training
fully prepared Ms. Kou to become a practicing marital and family
therapist skilled at integrating art processes within a family systems
orientation.
Ms. Kou has worked in psychiatric hospitals with adults, in residential
group homes with abused and neglected children, and in an out-patient
Asian agency with Chinese immigrants to the United States. She has
worked extensively with children, adolescents and adults who suffer
from mood, anxiety, social and behavioral disorders.
Through her experience, research and dissertation on Art Therapy
in parent-child issues with Chinese immigrants, Ms. Kou has come
to strongly believe that art therapy is an effective and powerful
way to break through defenses toward therapy. Art therapy can be
a particularly effective modality to overcome negative attitudes
and beliefs toward therapy, because it allows people to express
themselves while remaining silent. With children, particularly,
art therapy allows the expression of feelings and problems for which
children may have no words and which they have never been able to
bring forward to others.
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