Dora Dui Chen, LCSW (朵拉陈, she/her/hers), is a Certified IFS Therapist, Consultant, and Trainer with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in holistic, experiential therapy for individuals and families, focusing on complex trauma, attachment wounds, and challenges related to immigration and minority experiences. Dora also offers clinical consultation, training, and workshops to fellow clinicians, actively contributing to the development of future IFS therapists. As a first-generation immigrant from China to the U.S., Dora’s personal journey enriches her compassionate and culturally attuned approach. She holds a healing space that honors both personal and collective stories, drawing on cultural and ancestral wisdom. Dora is also dedicated to expanding IFS within the Chinese-speaking community, regularly offering workshops and clinical consultation in Mandarin Chinese. To learn more about Dora and her practice, please visit https://coc.care/

Specialties

Depth orientation

Assistant Trainer with the IFS Institute. Internal Family Systems works with the multiplicity of inner parts and the integrating Self, a structure that runs parallel to the depth-psychological idea of complexes and the ego-Self axis.

Chen’s approach Preparing for a first session with Chen