Tzu-Ping Cheng, LCPC

Tzu-Ping Cheng is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 12 years of experience. She speaks English and Mandarin and brings personal and professional perspective to work involving life transitions, identity, and cultural change.

She mentions a background of moving from Taiwan to the United States and living through many transitions. That experience shaped how she understands isolation, uncertainty, and shifts in one’s sense of self. She sees change as a place where new directions and preferences can develop.

In sessions she uses narrative and collaborative methods. She helps people tell and reframe the stories that shape how they respond to stress, anger, grief, and relationship strain. Practical goals often include clearer communication, reducing reactivity, and finding workable strategies for daily life.

Her stated concerns include coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, parenting and career issues, plus topics such as immigration, multicultural concerns, gender dysphoria, and adoption and foster care. She also notes work with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and family-of-origin issues.

Her listed clinical approaches are Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. In practice she focuses on collaborative conversations that connect personal history, present challenges, and concrete next steps. Booking begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.

How narrative and client-centered approaches work online