About Xiaoying
Xiaoying 'Sharon' Qi is a licensed professional counselor clinical candidate in California who has worked in clinical settings for seven years. She focuses on practical support for everyday problems like stress, anxiety, self-esteem, motivation, and career struggles. Sharon speaks English and Mandarin and aims to make the first steps toward therapy feel manageable.
Sharon adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation. She centers the client’s goals and uses clear tools rather than jargon.
How Xiaoying works
Sessions tend to focus on skills you can try between meetings and on small, steady changes that build confidence over time. Her scope includes a wide range of concerns, from mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar symptoms to trauma, grief, and addiction-related struggles.
She also helps people who are coping with caregiving strain, chronic illness, body-image worries, and relationship or intimacy-related challenges. Sharon draws on several practical approaches, including cognitive behavior work to challenge unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based strategies to handle difficult feelings, and emotion-focused techniques to improve how people relate in close connections.
She combines these methods to fit a person’s needs rather than using one fixed approach. Therapy with Sharon typically moves at a steady, goal-oriented pace. She supports people who want coaching-style guidance as well as those seeking deeper emotional work.
To begin, a short questionnaire and a scheduled session get the process started.
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What Xiaoying works with
The areas below are the ones Xiaoying selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care delivered online
Sharon uses cognitive behavioral work to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns, which can ease anxiety, low mood, and difficulty with motivation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people make room for tough feelings while moving toward meaningful actions, useful for chronic stress, grief, or coping with health issues. Emotion-focused work looks at how emotions show up in relationships and helps people build stronger emotional connections and communication.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Sharon will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress unfolds, so the plan fits the person's life and aims.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support possible between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for matching the format to a particular goal or moment.
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