Dr Edward Chan
Dr. Edward Chan is the principal consultant couple and sex therapist and psychologist at Relate, Centre for Couple Therapy of the International Psychology Centre.He has been conducting couple and sex therapy and assessment for individuals and couples for the past 18 years in Malaysia, Asia and Europe. He received training in Emotion Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Couple Therapy and Voice Dialog Facilitation Couple Therapy and Schema Couple Therapy.
Education
Dr. Chan gained his degree in psychology with Honours from Middlesex University, U.K., his Masters degree at the University of Lancaster, U.K. and his Diploma in Human Sexuality and Doctorate in Psychology from the Intercultural Open University, the Netherlands. He was supervised by Professor Kim Plunkett at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford for his doctoral research.
Professional organizations, memberships and functions
Dr. Chan is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy, Counseling & Psychiatry: Theory, Research & Clinical Practice (www.IJPCP.com) Dr. Chan is a practitioner member (level 5, supervisor) and a Fellow of the Malaysian Association of Psychotherapy (MAP) and the Malaysian Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Association (MCBTA), and a fellow of the World Council of Psychotherapy. He is a board certified Couple and Sex Therapist with the MAP Board of Sex Therapy (http://www.malaysianpsychotherapy.net).
He is a full practitioner member of the Psychotherapy Chapter of the Malsysian Society for Complementary Medicine, MSCM. Dr. Chan was the invited keynote speaker for Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference 2013 and the World Psychotherapy Conference 2015 (counselingmalaysia.com) and in 2017 in Paris where he presented research on “Why Couples fall in love and then fight”. Dr. Chan was also an invited speaker at the 37th European Psychiatry Conference 2019 in Warsaw where he presented his research on the topic of Couple Schema Chemistry.
At the national level, Dr. Chan was invited by LPPKN (Lembaga Penduduk dan Pembangunan Keluarga Negara) to speak at the National Family Harmony Workshop. These were a small selection of international and national couple and sex therapy conferences Dr. Chan was invited to speak on.
Professional and other activities, selected publications:
Dr. Chan received postgraduate certification in Couple, Family and Sex Therapy Aldo Gurgone, licensed clinical psychologist at William Street Relationship Centre, Perth; and Collaborative Therapy by Professor Harlene Anderson, family therapist from the Houston Gavelston Institute, USA. Dr. Chan has also completed his didatic training in Emotion Focused Couple Therapy accredited by the International Institute of Emotion Focused Couple Therapy.
Dr. Chan has taught in the the Malaysian Association of Psychotherapy accredited professional certification courses in Couple Therapy, Sex Therapy, Family Therapy and Psychotherapy.
Dr. Chan has also authored numerous books and papers, including those published in the academic proceedings and peer reviewed journals of the various international and national conferences he has been invited to speak, including, Current Research & Practices on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Asia, ed., Professor Tian P.S. Oei from the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia; and Love Is Never Enough, Pleasurable Commitment Rules, the critically acclaimed book on couple psychology.
