About Yawen
Yawen Ning is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She practices from Michigan and brings seven years of clinical experience to conversations about mental health. She works in English and Mandarin and supports clients around LGBT concerns and relationship strain.
Yawen supports people who have experienced trauma, abuse, or ongoing shame. She also helps with self-esteem, motivation, and body image concerns. In sessions she treats issues related to gender dysphoria, sexual assault and sexual dysfunction when those topics come up.
Background and approach
Her approach begins by treating each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for strengths and builds on what already works. People who come to her often want practical steps they can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control.
Yawen is comfortable talking about less common relationship arrangements and sexual cultures, including polyamory, BDSM, kink, and other alternative sex cultures. She also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, and attachment challenges that affect relationships. Her background includes licensed practice as an LMSW and a LCSW.
She aims to make the process straightforward: notice what is getting in the way, try small changes, and track what helps. Many clients leave with clearer goals and tools to manage anxiety and stress.
Approaches and online options for anxiety and stress
Yawen commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and skill practice. One approach she often relies on teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, behavioral experiments, and gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. These skills help people feel more in control of daily anxiety.Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process past hurts and reduce their ongoing impact. This involves pacing conversations, naming reactions, and building safety and stability before addressing painful memories. It can help with symptoms that follow assault, abuse, or repeated stress.
Yawen treats choosing the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to the client's priorities and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility with several session formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is wanted. Phone sessions or live chat can work when internet bandwidth is low or a quicker check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments and can make it easier to share thoughts outside scheduled sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Michigan
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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