About Indinesya
Indinesya Zhao is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She greets new clients with a direct, calm approach and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Her style aims to make starting therapy feel less intimidating for someone who is worried or unsure.
Zhao uses practical methods to help people build confidence and handle relationship strains.
Background and approach
She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, depression, and feelings of isolation or shame. She also addresses issues connected to abandonment, guilt, and challenges faced by veterans and people with post-traumatic stress. Her work draws on a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma work.
She also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and dialectical behavior strategies for managing strong emotions. Solution-focused tools help set short-term goals and track progress. With six years of clinical experience, Zhao aims to make sessions practical and understandable.
She focuses on small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. The goal is to reduce overwhelm and help people reconnect with what matters to them. People looking for sessions in English will find options for live video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
She practices in Virginia and holds an LPC credential.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety or low mood makes day-to-day living feel heavy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life practice, which is useful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional intensity; this approach is often paced to the person’s readiness and can be adapted for remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Zhao will discuss what matters to the client, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. The process is collaborative and focused on practical steps a person can use between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when lower bandwidth or hands-free listening is needed. Live chat or text messaging is helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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