- Client-centered approach
- Practical coping skills
- English and Mandarin
About Sixuan
She helps with stress, anxiety, and mood challenges such as depression and bipolar issues. Relationship concerns, intimacy-related struggles, and grief are other common areas she addresses. People also come for career coaching, motivation, and help with self-esteem and confidence.
Her work includes support for trauma and abuse recovery, addiction-related concerns, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas listed include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication struggles, and a range of personality-related concerns. She also notes experience with aging and health-related challenges such as cancer and comorbidity.
Sessions draw on client-centered principles to keep the conversation focused on what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are available for managing symptoms and building new skills. Existential and Jungian ideas are used when exploring meaning, identity, and deeper patterns.
She offers services in English and Mandarin. Sixuan encourages people who are ready to try therapy to reach out and start the matching process. The first steps involve a short questionnaire and scheduling to connect based on availability.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
9+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English, Mandarin
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Client-centered work begins with the person's story. This approach emphasizes listening, understanding what matters most, and building on existing strengths to address current problems and goals. It can help when someone feels stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to change a pattern.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses concrete exercises and practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through your goals and preferences and suggest which ideas and exercises might fit best. Together you can adjust the plan as progress is made or priorities shift.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the therapist's biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins or longer skill-building sessions when needed. These practical benefits help people keep momentum and apply new skills between meetings.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar issues, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, grief, addictions, career coaching, self-esteem, and many related challenges.
What is the therapy style like in sessions?
Sessions are client-centered and practical, with a focus on the person's story and strengths. Techniques from CBT and DBT are used when helpful to teach skills and reduce symptoms.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has nine years of professional experience working with a range of mood, trauma, and relationship concerns and offers both symptom-focused skills and deeper exploration of meaning.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, listed as LCSW, practicing in New York.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin.
Can people outside the U.S. work with this therapist?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps start the process of working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Before you get in touch
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