About Gezhou
Gezhou Li is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety and related concerns. She works in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese and practices from New York. Gezhou aims to create a calm, practical space where people can talk through what feels stuck and begin to feel more steady.
She draws on her eight years of experience supporting people facing trauma, relationship problems, depression, and stress. Gezhou uses straightforward tools to boost self-awareness and reduce overwhelming reactions.
Background and approach
She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and choose different responses in daily life. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, useful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques are used to shift thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills can help with intense emotions and improving moment-to-moment coping. For people with trauma or painful memories, she may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or guided hypnotherapy elements when appropriate. Gezhou blends these approaches to match each person's needs, priorities, and pace.
Her background as a bicultural clinician informs how she talks about identity, immigration, and cultural stress. She supports work on communication, commitment issues, intimacy, and challenges like addiction or grief. Gezhou focuses on practical steps that fit a client's life.
People seeking to make steady progress can expect direct, compassionate guidance. Gezhou encourages curiosity about inner patterns and steady practice between sessions. She aims to help clients build lasting skills for coping and growth.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity; it helps when someone needs acceptance and a nonjudgmental space to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving tolerance for distress, and strengthening interpersonal communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That process may combine elements from different methods and will change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can fit better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send updates or work through small concerns between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while using the approaches described above with a licensed therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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