About Yangyang
Yangyang Xie is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical talk and active listening to help people with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on clear goals and real steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are available in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Yangyang views each person as the expert on their own story.
She helps clients notice strengths and use them to move past what feels stuck. That can mean learning new ways to handle panic, repairing communication habits, or building self-esteem.
Her work combines ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. That means clients learn to change unhelpful thoughts and also accept difficult feelings while living by chosen values.
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to create a calm, respectful space. Yangyang has six years of clinical experience and holds a California LMFT license.
Her background supports people dealing with parenting strain, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and trauma-related symptoms. Practical tools are a common part of sessions, such as breathing techniques for panic, skill work for impulse control, and step-by-step plans for improving communication.
She frames growth as small, steady changes rather than instant fixes. Sessions can happen by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
To begin, a brief intake helps match goals to a plan and decide which format will work best.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people decide what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and decisions about parenting or relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce panic, worry, and depressive cycles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people shift interaction habits to feel more supported and connected.Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and deeper skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese