About Yangyang
Yangyang Xie is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical, skill-based approaches to stress and anxiety. She works in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, aimed at helping people find small changes that make daily life easier.
She leans on methods that teach coping skills and new ways of thinking. That includes cognitive behavioral strategies to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take manageable steps toward them. Yangyang helps people manage panic, social anxiety, and mood challenges with structured tools and gentle guidance. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief from separation or divorce, and issues like guilt, shame, and isolation.
Parenting concerns and communication problems are additional areas she addresses with concrete techniques and problem-solving. Sessions mix listening with practical exercises. Clients can expect to set realistic goals, practice skills between meetings, and check what works in daily life.
She emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own experience and that therapy is a team effort. Yangyang offers therapy by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She practices in California as an LMFT and is available to work with international clients as well.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them while choosing actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck by focusing on small steps toward a more meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is useful for panic, social anxiety, mood changes, and everyday worries because it teaches practical tools to change reactions and routines.
Yangyang approaches the choice of method as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals, try interventions that fit those goals, and adapt the plan over time. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and adjustments are expected as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is quick for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections and skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try methods that match how someone prefers to connect.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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