Christopher Chaffin

Dr. Chaffin has been teaching at the Chicago School since 2016 and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Long Beach. He earned both of his higher degrees at the Chicago School's Los Angeles campus, so he has an intimate understanding of the experience of being a Chicago School professor and of being a Chicago School student. He has taught a wide variety of courses in the MA and PsyD programs for the MFT department over the years and has worked with a wide variety of intersecting demographics in his journey as a clinical professional. Dr. Chaffin firmly believes in the responsibility of an educating institution not only to its students but to the future patients those students will treat, which is why he endeavors to provide students with access to his personal, professional, and academic experiences in context of their learning. Personally, Dr. Chaffin is half-Persian, an existentialist, a reader, and a nerd, geek, and dork (who can identify the differences in those three terms) who just wants to watch the world learn.