About Lizhen
Lizhen Yan is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or depression. Her style is warm and direct, and she uses straightforward methods to help people manage daily pressures and relationship concerns.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and reactions. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her work with people who want clearer communication and stronger emotional connection. With five years of clinical experience, she blends talking and practical exercises. Sessions often include simple homework, behavior experiments, and focused skill practice.
Conversations aim to be clear and usable between sessions rather than overly abstract. Lizhen speaks English and Mandarin, which helps when cultural or language factors matter in therapy. Her approach accepts different faith backgrounds while noting her own Christian perspective when it is relevant to a client's goals.
She offers a mix of session styles such as real-time conversations and messaging options. People who choose her are typically looking for concrete ways to reduce anxiety, improve communication, or manage family stress without getting lost in jargon.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety and stress when someone wants to stop struggling with feelings and start living by chosen priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavior changes. That approach is practical and useful for reducing worry, shifting negative thinking, and building new coping habits.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection in relationships. It can be helpful for people who want clearer communication and more supported interactions with important others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. The plan can evolve as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Florida, New York, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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