Background

Claire Chow was born on October 15, 1952 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States to the family of a college professor Wen Mou and Diana Chow.

Education

Claire Chow received a Bachelor of Arts from Occidental College and a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of Chicago. She received a Master of Counseling from the University of San Francisco and completed an internship at Mt. Diablo Hospital in their newly-formed Bereavement Support Program.

Career

Claire Chow is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has been in practice in the Tri-Valley area for over 20 years. She is the author of Leaving Deep Water: Lives of Asian-American Women in which she chronicles the lives of over one hundred women of varying age and life experience.

In addition to Claire's private practice, she has worked with youth in the foster care system, with low-income seniors and with caregivers. She also supervises interns at a non-profit counseling center she helped to develop and teaches both at John F. Kennedy University and University of California-Berkeley. Courses include clinical skills and grief, with a special interest in cultural considerations.

Works

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  • Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian-American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures

    (Based on hundreds of intimate interviews, a family counse...)

    1998

Membership

• Association for Asian American Studies , United States

• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists , United States

Connections

Claire Chow married a software designer James L. Beattie on June 14, 1980. They have two children Rebecca Hua and Julian Hua.

Father:

Wen Mou

Mother:

Diana Chow

husband:

James L. Beattie

Daughter:

Rebecca Hua

Son:

Julian Hua

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 166 This volume of Contemporary Authors contains biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers.
  1998