About Yung-Mei
Yung-Mei Leong, MD, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, life transitions, and ADHD. She emphasizes practical steps and calm support so people can manage day-to-day challenges. The opening conversation focuses on what feels hardest and what a workable next step might look like.
Leong draws on eight years of direct psychotherapy experience within a longer clinical career. She uses approaches that look at thoughts and behaviors together to find clearer patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking, trying small behavioral changes, and practicing coping skills between meetings. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She aims to make sessions feel honest and nonjudgmental so people can talk about difficult feelings, including shame, guilt, or social fears.
Practical tools and reflection are balanced in each session. Leong also addresses concerns that intersect with culture and life changes, such as immigration issues, end-of-life matters, relationship structures like polyamory or kink, and reproductive transitions like pregnancy and childbirth. She can help with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic, phobias, and body-focused behaviors such as trichotillomania.
Work often focuses on small, concrete steps clients can use right away. Homework might include short behavioral experiments, brief thought records, or communication practice. Over time the aim is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day functioning.
Practical approaches and flexible online therapy
Leong commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods that help people identify thoughts that get in the way and experiment with new behaviors to reduce anxiety or improve mood. This approach is useful for worries, depressive patterns, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and everyday avoidance.She also draws on behavioral strategies that focus on small, stepwise changes. These techniques help with panic, phobias, attention and activity regulation, and habits like trichotillomania by breaking problems into manageable tasks and tracking progress.
Finding the right approach is a collaboration. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try techniques together, and adjust what you do based on what helps most. Clients are invited to discuss what feels useful and what needs change as work continues.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full-session conversations and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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