About Sixuan
Sixuan Bao is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She centers sessions around what matters to each person and helps them notice strengths they already have. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
She uses methods that help people understand and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, breaks problems into small parts and tests new ways of thinking.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Sixuan also draws on client-centered ideas that put the person’s goals and experience at the center of care. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and helps people set realistic steps toward their goals.
This can be useful for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her nine years of experience include work with trauma, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, career concerns, and mood differences such as depression and bipolar-related challenges. She speaks English and Mandarin and adapts her style to fit each person’s needs.
For practical matters she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sixuan encourages people to start with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session that fits their life and goals.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s needs and goals, offering empathic listening and guidance so the client sets the pace and topics. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to clarify what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into manageable pieces and teaches practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and habits that interfere with daily life because it offers exercises people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Decisions about focus and methods are shared and reviewed over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone calls are a simple option when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use the format that best supports progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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