About Yuki
Yuki Sugisaki is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, straightforward support for people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and big life changes. Sessions can be in English or Japanese, and she works with clients across California and internationally.
Yuki draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand their close relationships. She uses client-centered ways of listening so clients direct the pace and focus of therapy.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral tools are brought in to help with patterns of worry, panic, or compulsive behaviors. Many people come to Yuki when addiction or co-occurring issues make daily life hard. She has long experience in addiction counseling alongside broader work with depression, trauma, grief, and relationship strain.
She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, isolation, career pressures, and questions about life purpose. Her sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth. Expect a mix of talking, problem-solving, and skill practice aimed at clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Yuki also pays attention to how early relationships affect current patterns of connection and trust. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time.
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Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Yuki blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals, so sessions move at a pace that feels right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior to reduce worry, panic, and compulsive responses with practical exercises.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Yuki will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. She collaborates on a plan that may mix listening-focused support with skills practice and relationship-focused insight.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can work well for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when typed communication feels more comfortable. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with for people managing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Japanese
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