Yangyang Xie, LMFT

Yangyang Xie is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, and depression. She brings six years of clinical experience in California and speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Yangyang writes and talks plainly in sessions and aims to make therapy feel understandable and workable for busy people.

Her work often centers on anxiety, panic, mood disorders, and responses to trauma and abuse. She also helps people manage parenting stresses, improve self-esteem, and reduce feelings of isolation and shame. Sessions focus on everyday changes that lead to clearer thinking and steadier moods.

Yangyang draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behavior patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps. Attachment-based ideas appear when relationship patterns and trust issues come up in conversation.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to find solutions that fit daily routines. Typical steps include setting simple goals, practicing skills between sessions, and adjusting strategies as needed.

Yangyang is comfortable working with concerns such as communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and social anxiety. She welcomes clients who prefer sessions in Mandarin or Cantonese as well as English, and she sees people who live outside the United States through international appointments.

How CBT and ACT translate to online care

Yangyang often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT sessions typically involve identifying thoughts, testing them with real-life experiments, and practicing new ways of responding to situations.

She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions even when uncomfortable emotions are present. ACT can help with stress, avoidance, and long-standing worries by shifting what a person chooses to spend energy on.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Yangyang treats it as a team effort - she will ask about goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest starting points and adapt methods over time. Clients and therapist check in about what helps and change course as needed.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or midweek coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.