About Chian
Chian Hsu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She brings five years of clinical experience and practical focus to conversations about mood, relationships, and everyday strain. She uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different ways of coping.
Sessions often include exercises from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift thinking, mindfulness practices to calm the body, and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy for managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy is also available when appropriate. Chian frames work around each person's strengths. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, doable goals.
People who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or bereft of direction can expect steady, practical steps toward clearer thinking and calmer days. Her background blends clinical social work with attention to life demands like work and caregiving. She has experience with aging and geriatric issues, cancer and hospice-related concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, immigration challenges, and issues around guilt, shame, and forgiveness.
Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin and can address relationship strain, identity questions, loneliness, and finding life purpose. Chian works with grief, depression, and adjustment problems in ways that honor a person's pace and cultural background. She aims to help people rebuild balance and confidence over time.
Therapeutic tools for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That means some sessions may focus on skills practice, while others emphasize values, pacing, or deeper emotional work depending on the person's needs.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a hands-free check-in fits a busy day. Chat and text sessions make it easy to send brief updates, try short exercises between meetings, or keep regular contact without scheduling a full video visit. These options help fit therapy into varying schedules, time zones, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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