Tag: Jessica Cho

#CW (content warning: this episode talks about infertility and sexuality)

Dr. Jessica Cho shares her experiences and research into options for women seeking to be a mother, but have infertility and fertility issues, and the many challenging considerations involved with options like domestic adoption through the child welfare system, foster children, international cross-cultural adoption, fertility treatment, or remaining childless. We talk about how this affects our faith and identity in Christ, and how God gives hope in the midst of one’s sorrows, griefs, and yearnings.

Show Notes

Dr. Jessica Cho – A New Leaf Counseling

More Than Love: Adopting and Surviving Attachment Disorder Children by Sherril M. Stone

It Takes More than Love: A Christian Guide to Navigating the Complexities of Cross-Cultural Adoption by Brittany Salmon

Yes we Asian and Asian Americans have strong family values, but that often comes out of duty rather than delight. For those of us who are young parents, the question to consider is this: when our children grow up, with they love being with us, or will it feel like an obligation?

Dr. Jessica Cho shares about how to grow relationships by practicing emotional availability during those early years of parenting young children, and how that’s so valuable in the long run. And then when those children become adults, the’ll love being with their parents, and vice versa, full of joy and delight and obliged to visit their parents out of duty.

Show Notes

Dr. Jessica Cho – A New Leaf Counseling anewleafcounseling.org 

Background music = Cello Suite no. 1 – Prelude in G, BWV 1007 performed by Colin Carr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://musopen.org/music/3998-cello-suite-no-1-in-g-major-bwv-1007/

Dr. Jessica Cho chats with DJ Chuang about how marriage can be much more than a perfunctory or functional stage of life between adulting and parenting. Listen to this episode for how you can enjoy your marriage with your partner and experience the naked-and-unashamed intimacy that the Bible talks about in the beginning. Learn what emotional connectedness looks and feels like up close.

Show Notes

Dr. Jessica Cho – A New Leaf Counseling anewleafcounseling.org 

Dr. Jessica Cho shares her back story of going from marketing at MTV to the mission field in Japan (where they used talk therapy as part of ministry outreach) and becoming a mental health professional, with a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree and also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Tuck in your earbuds and listen to quite the adventure in how faith and work come together in her life. We also discuss navigating the many roles and careers in the mental health world and how does someone choose or decide.

Dr. Jessica Cho’s private practice is A New Leaf Counseling https://www.anewleafcounseling.org and her clinical specialties are in the areas of Anxiety, Relational/Marital Discord, Fertility, Adoption Triad, and Grief & Loss. Dr. Cho is a second generation Korean-American who understands the melding of multiple generations and cultural complexities.