Yung-Mei Leong , MD

Yung-Mei Leong, MD, helps people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges like ADHD. She focuses on practical coping when life shifts, such as divorce, pregnancy, immigration changes, or end-of-life concerns. Her work includes support around OCD, panic, phobias, social anxiety, and issues related to kink and non-monogamous relationships.

She takes a straightforward and compassionate approach. Sessions aim to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. The goal is clearer thinking and skills that fit everyday life.

With eight years providing psychotherapy, she draws on a broad range of past work settings. That experience helps her offer concrete tools for stress, obsessions and compulsions, and relationship-related worries. She also supports people coping with isolation, guilt, shame, and midlife transitions.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She talks through problems, teaches coping strategies, and encourages self-compassion. People leave with small, doable steps to practice between sessions.

She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English. Therapy can include talks about sexual diversity, polyamory, and alternative sex culture when those subjects relate to a person’s wellbeing.

How evidence-based approaches translate online

Yung-Mei Leong uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive behavioral approaches look at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and help people test new ways of responding to anxiety, OCD, or depression. Behavioral strategies break down bigger goals into small steps and practice them to reduce avoidance and build confidence.

Exposure-based methods address panic, phobias, and certain obsessive-compulsive patterns by gradually facing feared situations or thoughts with guidance. This helps lessen avoidance and teaches that anxiety decreases over time when approached in a planned way.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and schedules. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief exercises between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while trying different approaches.