Biography

Rev. Dr. Siang-Yang Tan is senior professor of clinical psychology at Fuller’s School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy, and previously was director of the PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) in Clinical Psychology program (from 1989 to 1997). He is a licensed psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from McGill University and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Tan has published articles on lay counseling and lay counselor training, intrapersonal integration and spirituality, religious psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, epilepsy, pain, and cross-cultural counseling with Asians and Hispanics. He has also published 17 books including Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective (2nd ed.), A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy, Lay Counseling (2nd ed.), and Shepherding God’s People: A Guide to Faithful and Fruitful Pastoral Ministry. He is Senior Pastor Emeritus of First Evangelical Church Glendale and serves as Spiritual Director of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC).