Gezhou Li , LMHC

Gezhou Li is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people navigate relationship struggles, trauma, mood concerns, and women's issues. She speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese and works with adults from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people feel less stuck and more able to act on their values.

Gezhou draws on eight years of clinical experience gained in New York. She uses plain questions and reflective listening to help clients notice patterns that get in the way. From there she introduces practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress so people can handle daily tasks and big decisions more easily.

Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to each person's experience while helping them test new thoughts and habits. She also brings skills from dialectical behavior work and trauma-focused methods to address intense emotions and distressing memories.

Sessions can include focused exercises, emotion regulation practice, and skills for improving communication and intimacy. Gezhou helps people untangle issues like commitment concerns, infidelity, family of origin patterns, and challenges tied to immigration or cultural identity.

She describes therapy as a collaborative journey. Clients set goals and she offers tools and feedback to reach them. Practical aims often include improving sleep, reducing panic, rebuilding self-esteem, or finding clearer direction in career and relationships.

Approaches for online healing and skills work

Gezhou commonly integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when strong emotions get in the way. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients feel heard and can explore their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot and test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy adds practical emotion-regulation and interpersonal skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their needs and goals, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions match their pace and preferences.

Online formats offer real flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face work and guided exercises, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, childcare, or travel.