Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi, LPCC

Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a California Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with seven years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem challenges, career pressures, and anger. Sessions are conducted in English and Mandarin and draw on several psychotherapy approaches she uses in practice.

Sharon keeps sessions direct and practical. She talks through what’s happening now and what feels hard at home or work. She helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior, and practices concrete skills to respond differently in tense moments.

Her background includes work with mood and trauma-related issues, addictions, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and control or impulsivity problems. That experience informs how she structures sessions and sets manageable goals.

Sharon uses a blend of approaches rather than one fixed method. Techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are part of her toolkit. She also draws on client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to keep conversations grounded in what matters to the client.

Practical steps are a recurring theme. Early sessions often focus on small changes clients can try between meetings. Over time those experiments guide whether to keep a strategy or try a different approach. To begin, clients follow the site process to match and schedule a first appointment.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work