About Xiaoying
Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a licensed clinician who brings seven years of experience to her California practice. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career frustrations, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. Sharon speaks English and Mandarin and aims to make the first conversation straightforward and respectful.
She focuses on building a calm, compassionate space where clients can talk through what matters most. Sharon adapts sessions to each person's needs and uses clear, practical tools rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with steps people can try between meetings. Her approach draws on mindfulness and cognitive tools to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. She also uses relationship-focused methods to help people repair connection and manage intimacy-related concerns.
For those facing addictions, trauma, grief, or major life changes, she combines skills training with emotion-focused work. Sharon pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment issues shape current patterns. She supports people working through body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or life-purpose questions.
Clients looking for help with ADHD, sleep, eating, anger, or impulsivity can expect concrete strategies and pacing suited to their goals. Practical matters like session format and pacing are discussed up front. She explains how different tools might fit a client’s situation and adjusts as progress unfolds.
The overall aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward them even when feelings are uncomfortable. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework to improve mood and daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding feelings and improving emotional connection, which helps with intimacy and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about your goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust plans based on what works. That means the therapy path can change as you learn more about what helps you most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit your life. Video calls let you use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep steady progress even with a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Mandarin