About Hai
Hai Nguyen helps people facing addiction, relationship pain, stress, anxiety, mood concerns, grief, parenting strain, and struggles with identity and intimacy. He is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, with 15 years of clinical experience and a long history in addiction and dual diagnosis settings. Hai speaks English and Vietnamese and blends clinical work with a teaching background.
His sessions are straightforward and focused. He listens for patterns in relationships and behavior.
How Hai works
He helps people name what matters, set goals, and try small changes that can shift daily life. He draws on therapy approaches that emphasize values, emotion, and how people connect to one another. Hai has worked in schools, outpatient clinics, and residential addiction programs.
He has experience with mood disorders, trauma, domestic violence, and co-occurring substance use and mental health concerns. He also has experience with issues such as attachment wounds, codependency, and isolation that often sit underneath surface struggles. As a former online professor and program director, he brings an educator's eye to therapy.
He explains ideas in plain language and offers practical tools alongside deeper conversation. Sessions often balance emotional work with concrete skills for coping, communication, and relapse prevention. People meet him for help with relationship repair, healing from loss, managing bipolar or depression, and getting a handle on anxiety, ADHD, or compulsive behaviors.
He frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports each person in finding a manageable path forward.
Hai lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Hai works with
The areas below are the ones Hai selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Vietnamese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing and connection
Hai often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, values-driven actions even when emotions are hard. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns.He also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. This approach helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeated relationship hurts and can be useful for intimacy and family issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hai will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. He balances emotional exploration with practical steps so therapy fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading emotional cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera. Chat and messaging offer brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and people in different parts of California.
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