About Heyjin
Heyjin Oh is an AASW social worker with four years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict and depression. She uses clear, practical language and aims to make sessions feel calm and manageable. Heyjin offers care in English and Korean and frames work around each person's needs and goals.
She prefers a collaborative style where the person sets priorities. Heyjin helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with difficult past relationships, attachment concerns and issues around commitment and trust. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills. That means sessions often combine thinking about unhelpful thoughts, learning coping strategies, and practising emotional regulation in real situations.
Motivational Interviewing concepts can also be used to support readiness for change. Heyjin has practical experience working with family of origin issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity and dissociation. She welcomes straightforward conversations about how these patterns affect daily life and relationships.
Sessions focus on simple strategies that can be used between meetings. People who prefer a calm, step-by-step approach often find her style helpful. Heyjin aims to make therapy feel like a manageable part of life rather than an added burden.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful habits; it often helps with anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills emphasise emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences and how problems show up in daily life. From there they select methods to try, check what helps, and adjust the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided skills practice, phone sessions can fit into short breaks or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family or study schedules while keeping the focus on practical skill building and emotional coping.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Korean
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