About Lizhen
Lizhen Yan is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks English and Mandarin and practices from New Jersey.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and relevant to daily life. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, including communication problems, blended family issues, and family of origin patterns.
She also supports people coping with abandonment, attachment challenges, adoption and foster care matters, and fertility or fatherhood-related stress. Her work addresses caregiving strain, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence in ways that center the client's immediate needs.
In sessions she uses practical tools drawn from several approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports working with emotions to improve connection and understanding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) adds strategies for clarifying values and taking meaningful action.
Her practice blends talk and action. Clients can expect clear goals and steps to try between sessions.
She tailors the pace and mix of techniques to each person's situation and priorities. With five years of experience, Lizhen combines a family-systems perspective with individual-focused work.
She aims for a calm, listening style and straightforward feedback. Therapy is arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors, which often helps reduce stress and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and working with emotions to improve understanding and connection in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then mix methods that fit those needs. This happens collaboratively so people can try a few strategies and keep what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, while phone calls can be easier when video would be difficult. Live chat and text are helpful for brief check-ins, journaling support, or when scheduling needs to be short and flexible. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Florida, New York, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Mandarin