Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi , LPCC

Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a licensed professional clinical counselor in California. She brings seven years of counseling experience and a steady, practical approach to helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions.

Sharon focuses on everyday struggles like parenting strain, career setbacks, low self-esteem, and motivation. She also works with issues such as ADHD, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, sleeping and eating problems, and relationship difficulties. Her work includes supporting people facing burnout and compassion fatigue as well as those coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress.

Her style is responsive and plainspoken. She listens first, then shapes sessions around each person's needs and goals. Conversations tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with a mix of skill-building and space to process emotions.

Sharon uses practical tools from evidence-informed approaches to help people change unhelpful patterns, manage intense feelings, and act toward what matters to them. She pays attention to attachment or abandonment issues, body image concerns, and communication problems when those themes come up.

Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin and can include conversation-focused work or brief coaching to tackle a specific problem. She helps people set small, doable steps and checks progress each week so plans stay realistic and relevant.

Therapeutic tools and online support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and encourages action toward personal values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors with practical exercises, which often helps with mood, sleep, and motivation. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and expressing important emotions to improve relationships and intimacy.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets people read facial cues during deeper conversations, phone calls are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or changing schedules.