About Sixuan
Sixuan Bao uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, relationship worries, and trauma. She is a New York licensed clinical social worker and brings nine years of professional experience to sessions. Sixuan speaks English and Mandarin and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Her work often blends cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior ideas to build coping skills. She also draws on existential and Jungian perspectives to help people make meaning when they face big life questions.
How Sixuan works
That mix lets her shift between concrete strategies and deeper self-reflection depending on what a person needs. Sixuan helps with career coaching, motivation, and issues around self-esteem and confidence. She supports people managing grief, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and mood conditions such as depression or bipolar disorder.
She also addresses intimacy-related worries, body image, eating and sleeping concerns, and a wide range of personality and attachment issues. Sessions focus on identifying what is most pressing, trying small changes, and building skills that work day to day. Sixuan respects each person's experience and emphasizes collaboration so goals feel realistic and meaningful.
She aims to make progress clear and manageable, one step at a time.
Sixuan lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Sixuan works with
The areas below are the ones Sixuan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship so the person's priorities drive the work. It helps when someone needs an empathetic space to talk and find their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests small changes in thinking and behavior. It works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and goal-focused areas like career motivation.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills are useful for anger, relationship strain, and building steady routines during stressful periods.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sixuan will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, strengths, and preferences, so sessions can shift as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let visual cues guide conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging keeps a running place for notes and reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to try different formats until the right fit is found.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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