Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
School of Education and Behavioral Sciences
Email: kathryn.chun@chaminade.edu
Phone: (808) 739-7425
Biography
Dr. Kathryn Chun is an Assistant Professor and the Practicum Director at the Hawai‘i School of Professional Psychology at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She earned her B.A. degree at Carleton College and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay campus. Upon returning to Hawaii, Dr. Chun continued working in child maltreatment and family trauma as a Hawaii licensed clinical psychologist. After assessing and treating families facing child maltreatment in a nonprofit community mental health center where she served on multidisciplinary teams and supervised doctoral interns and postdoctoral residents, she then worked in private practice providing assessment and therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and family therapy, as well as emotional and behavioral consultation. She continues her specialization in the assessment as the Psychological Evaluator at a K-12 independent school while teaching assessment courses at HSPP at CUH. She has additional research and treatment interests in family systems dynamics, health, developmental issues, attachment, emotional growth, and diversity. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Division 5, and the Hawaii Psychological Association (HPA).
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
B.A., Psychology Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1998.
