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Aileen B. Cho, M.A., LMFT, RDT/BCT, CEDS, is a second-generation, bilingual Korean-American psychotherapist. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California, a Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer through the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA), and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist through the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP).

Her clinical experience includes training and work in domestic violence and sexual assault centers/shelters, community mental health settings, the Veterans Affairs (VA) system, and middle and high schools. She has extensive experience working with adolescents and adults—individually, in couples, in groups, and with families—across a wide range of settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs, and private practice. Her specialties include trauma, eating disorders, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders throughout the Bay Area and Southern California.

Aileen is a practitioner and faculty/trainer in Developmental Transformations (DvT), a past director of the iWest Institute in San Francisco, and a faculty member of the Hot Pot Institute in Hong Kong. In addition to serving as an advisor and adjunct faculty member in the CIIS Drama Therapy program, she offers in-service trainings and consultation for various programs and organizations. She has been a troupe member of the Living Arts Playback Ensemble in the Bay Area, a performer and director with CIIS’ Theatre for Change, and has created, directed, and consulted on numerous Self-Revelatory (Self-Rev) Performances. She now teaches how to develop Self-Revs for both performers and directors.

Education

M.A. in Counseling Psychology / Drama Therapy, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

B.A. in Theatre (Area of Focus in Psychology), University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Awards & Distinctions

Troupe member of the Theatre for Change Recipient of the NADTA Raymond Jacobs Memorial Diversity Award (2012)

Courses

Drama Therapy Case Seminar

Special Methods: Developmental Transformations (DvT) I & II

Trauma & Resilience: Embodied Approaches to Treatment

Drama Therapy Final Integrative Seminar

Publications

Emunah, R., Raucher, G., Cho, A. (in press). Self-revelatory performance in mitigating the impact of trauma. In Sajnani, N., & Johnson, D. R. (2024). Trauma-informed drama therapy: Transforming clinics, classrooms, and communities. (2nd ed.). Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd.

Wood, L. Cho, A., Hartung, S., Al-Qadfan, F., Wichmann, S. (2022) Drama therapy and the treatment of eating disorders: Advancing towards clinical guidelines. In The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 80, 2022, 101948, ISSN 0197-4556, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2022.101948.

Sajnani, N., Cho, A., Landis, H., Raucher, G., Trytan, N. (2018) Collaborative discourse analysis on the use of drama therapy to treat depression in adults. In A. Zubala & V. Karkou & A. Arts therapies in the treatment of depression. London, UK: Routledge.