Dr. Cho is the CEO of the Tree Group and a founder of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center of Korea. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of New York. He graduated from the University of Utah and received his clinical training at Beth Israel Medical Center and trained extensively in a DBT program at The Zucker Hillside Hospital/North Shore Long Island Health System. He established the Tree Group in 2003 to provide humane and evidence-based psychological services in Korea.

With dedicated support from distinguished psychologists in the U.S., the Tree Group accomplishes its mission of relieving the suffering of its clients and of educating/training future clinicians with true compassion. His expertise in the field of cultural psychology and transcultural mental health was noted in the New York Times (2003) and he has been providing ethical services to culturally diverse clients.

His professional specialties allow him to reach out to the victims of human rights violations and sexual assault at the Open Clinic for Human Rights Victims, a non-profit organization.