About Yen-Pei
Yen-Pei Huang is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She speaks English and Mandarin and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Her style is collaborative and respectful of each person's background and goals.
She frames therapy as a chance to learn about personal patterns and try small changes that add up. Sessions often start with what feels most urgent and then move toward skills the person can use day to day.
How Yen-Pei works
Yen-Pei uses clear, concrete language and tailors tools to each person's needs. Yen-Pei draws from several approaches including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses mindfulness exercises to manage stress and narrative techniques to reframe painful experiences.
The mix depends on what the individual wants to focus on. Her background includes an undergraduate degree in clinical psychology and a graduate counseling program accredited by CACREP. Yen-Pei has 14 years of counseling experience and experience working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
She emphasizes practical problem solving as well as emotional understanding. People often come to her for relationship concerns, parenting stress, mood symptoms, trauma and abuse, identity questions, and career-related pressures. In sessions she balances listening with offering tools so clients leave with clearer next steps and manageable practices to try between meetings.
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What Yen-Pei works with
The areas below are the ones Yen-Pei 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Yen-Pei Uses Approaches Online
Yen-Pei commonly draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening carefully and helping people identify their own goals; it helps when someone needs a safe space to make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.She may also use mindfulness techniques to teach simple breathing and attention skills that reduce stress in the moment. These practices are brief and easy to try between sessions, which often helps with panic, racing thoughts, and sleeplessness.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match the person's goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. Sessions will adjust over time as needs change and progress is reviewed together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum.
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