About Xiaoying
Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California with seven years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and career challenges. She also addresses ADHD, addictions, grief, and relationship concerns.
Her approach is respectful and compassionate throughout treatment. Sharon adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She focuses on clear, practical steps rather than jargon.
Sessions are paced to match what the person needs in the moment, whether that means short skills practice or deeper emotional work.
Background and approach
She uses several therapeutic approaches to guide the work, drawing on strategies that help with thinking patterns, emotions, and behavior. Those methods inform how she supports people managing life changes, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and trauma reactions. Sharon also helps clients facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, or issues around attachment and abandonment.
Language can matter in hard conversations, so she offers services in English and Mandarin. Her clinical background includes helping people with impulsivity, isolation, and finding life purpose. She aims to make each session a place to try new ways of handling problems and to build skills that carry into daily life.
Sharon places an emphasis on collaboration. She invites questions, checks in often about goals, and adjusts plans when progress stalls. The work is practical, steady, and tuned to what each person brings into the room.
Therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values; it can be useful for anxiety, life changes, and problems with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns and testing new responses, which often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and impulsivity. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving how people express needs in close relationships, which can help with intimacy and communication issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps someone focus. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or keeping momentum on busy days. These options make scheduling more flexible and let therapy fit into different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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