About Yung-Mei
Yung-Mei Leong is a psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. She focuses on practical tools that make day-to-day life easier and reduce overwhelming symptoms. She emphasizes short-term, usable strategies.
Sessions often involve looking at unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes. She aims to help clients build self-compassion while developing clearer routines and coping habits. Leong has eight years of experience providing psychotherapy across varied settings.
Background and approach
That experience supports a steady, practical style that centers on what is working and what can change. She brings a calm, straightforward presence to sessions. Her work covers a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression.
This includes obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic and phobias, social anxiety, trichotillomania, and problems with guilt or shame. She also addresses life-stage issues such as midlife transitions, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and coping with separation or divorce. Leong is attentive to social and cultural differences and can help people facing immigration-related stress or multicultural challenges.
She also offers support around non-mainstream relationship styles and sexual cultures, including kink and polyamory, with nonjudgmental conversation and practical planning. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Leong practices in Maryland and uses methods focused on identifying unhelpful beliefs and building realistic, step-by-step changes.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Leong uses evidence-based techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing day-to-day behavior. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and help people try new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Exposure-based work helps people face fears in small, planned steps so panic, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms become more manageable over time. This method breaks down feared situations into achievable tasks and practices them progressively.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then recommend techniques to try. Clients and the therapist check progress and adjust plans as needed so the treatment fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or when typing out thoughts feels easier than speaking.
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- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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