Jeffery Chen-Harding (he/him) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a B.A. in English from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine obtained in 1993. I got my Master of Social Work degree at San José State University in 2003 and earned my license in 2008. I studied history and literature for a year in Santiago, Chile in 1996 and I am fluent in Spanish.
I have worked at Kaiser since 2017, doing individual and group psychotherapy as well as the Intensive Outpatient Program and triage offering services in both English and Spanish as a Qualified Bilingual Services clinician. I began at the Kaiser Department of Psychiatry in San Francisco and started with the Northern California Mental Health Training Program (MHTP) in February of 2026. Here at MHTP, I am one of the trainers in the Bilingual (Spanish) Specialty training track and also in the Trauma Specialization focusing on exposure-oriented therapies such as Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy. Before Kaiser I worked at other community agencies such as Institute on Aging and On Lok Senior Health in San Francisco as well as at the UCSF/SFGH Trauma Recovery Center in the Mission District of San Francisco. My interests especially include working transculturally with members of Latinx cultures, older adults, and the broad field of trauma and trauma-focused therapies. In terms of my own approach to therapy, I mostly work within the cognitive behavioral tradition, drawing largely on an approach known as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). This approach recognizes the way that the human mind treats normal and inevitable aspects of life such as sadness and anxiety as problems to be avoided and controlled rather than meaningful experiences that come with a full life. I live with my family in San Francisco, have a small private practice, and love exploring both the urban and wild parts of the Bay Area and northern California in general.
