About Hai
Hai Nguyen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. He helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship struggles, and ADHD. Hai writes and teaches about psychological topics and brings that experience into therapy.
He uses a mix of practical talk and careful listening. Sessions focus on real-life problems like sleep, eating, work stress, parenting, and intimacy. He draws on methods from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, emotionally-focused techniques, and client-centered conversation.
Background and approach
Hai’s background includes teaching psychology and health subjects online and working in community treatment settings. He spent many years in dual diagnosis programs for addiction and co-occurring mental health issues, moving from therapist roles into clinical leadership. That work included supporting people with mood disorders, trauma, and complex substance use concerns.
He has direct experience providing services in schools and nonprofit settings, and he has worked with individuals dealing with domestic violence, anger, and family separation. He also has experience with less typical concerns such as online gaming addiction and cultural adaptation challenges. Therapy with Hai tends to be collaborative and down-to-earth.
He helps people identify patterns, try small changes, and build better connection with themselves and others. Sessions are offered in English and Vietnamese for people located in California.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and problems with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and daily functioning. It often helps with sleep problems, eating issues, anger, and mood disorders. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how past relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more supported ways of relating with others. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hai will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what is most helpful. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues and work through relationship patterns, phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work during life transitions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
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