About Yuki
Yuki Sugisaki is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of clinical experience in California. She works in English and Japanese and supports people dealing with addiction, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and related life challenges. Her approach aims to create clear, practical steps people can use right away.
She blends attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to build trust and make space for honest conversation. Yuki uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address patterns of thinking and behavior that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when emotions and relationships are at the heart of the problem. Many clients come to talk about substance use and co-occurring concerns. She also helps people facing grief, eating struggles, relationship pain, career uncertainty, and intense anxiety or panic.
Sessions often focus on small changes that make daily life easier and on coping skills that reduce stress in the moment. Yuki offers a calm, steady presence and works at a pace the client chooses. She can support people who are caring for others, facing abandonment issues, or dealing with life transitions.
Her bilingual ability can help English or Japanese speakers express what matters most. Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To start, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules a time that fits their needs.
Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Using attachment and cognitive tools in online therapy
Yuki uses attachment-based therapy to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach focuses on connection and safety so clients can talk about triggers and relationship pain in a steady way. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and practical behaviors. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments, and build routines that reduce anxiety and addictive urges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yuki collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She will check in and adapt strategies as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you read facial expressions and practice new interaction skills. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels easier. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework planning, or support between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Japanese
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