About Xiaoying
Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a licensed professional clinical counselor practicing in California. She brings seven years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on practical help for everyday problems like stress and anxiety. Sharon offers sessions in English and Mandarin and adapts her approach to each person's needs.
Sharon aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through what feels hardest right now. She helps clients build skills for handling worry, boost self-esteem, and find clearer direction in work and parenting.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to the person rather than following one rigid method. Her background includes work with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, challenges related to trauma and grief, and struggles with addiction and impulse control. Sharon also supports people dealing with body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
She draws on several approaches to guide sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered methods. Those tools are used to teach coping skills, shift unhelpful patterns, and strengthen emotional awareness. Practical matters are part of the process.
Sharon provides therapy by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, and works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, someone selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce worry and improve sleep or mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name emotions to improve emotional connection and regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust strategies if something is not helpful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls approximate a face-to-face session, which supports skill teaching and emotional work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for more frequent or flexible contact and can fit into busy days or between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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