Yangyang Xie
Compassionate, skills-based therapy for real-life challenges
LMFT California
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
About Yangyang
Yangyang Xie is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers cognitive behavioral techniques within a collaborative, strengths-based practice. With six years of clinical experience in California, she helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse by combining practical skills with reflective work.
Background and approach
Yangyang emphasizes that clients hold expertise about their own lives and brings interventions aimed at improving mood, confidence, and everyday functioning. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods such as CBT, acceptance-oriented strategies, attachment-focused perspectives, and emotion regulation skills to address concerns like panic, social anxiety, and chronic mood disturbances.
She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, separation or divorce, communication difficulties, and issues related to guilt, shame, or isolation. Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, she works with a diverse clientele and accepts international clients when appropriate.
Yangyang frames therapy as a cooperative process that honors each person’s strengths while offering tools for change. She encourages tentative first steps toward greater self-compassion and improved relationships, and she tailors interventions to client goals and life circumstances.
Integrating evidence-based approaches with online convenience
Yangyang draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies for reducing anxiety, managing panic, and lifting mood. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support people in clarifying values, tolerating difficult emotions, and taking committed steps toward a more meaningful life. Attachment-based work is used to explore relational patterns and improve emotional connection and communication when past relationship experiences affect current functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Yangyang works with each person to assess which strategies fit their goals and preferences, mixing skill-building and reflective practices as needed. Clients and therapist set shared aims and adjust methods over time so the work remains relevant and effective for the individual.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles and time zones. These formats make it easier to access consistent support while balancing work, family, or travel, and they allow therapists to use CBT exercises, ACT values work, and attachment-focused conversations in ways that suit each client’s routine.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese