Asian Therapists in Alamance County, NC
I am a bilingual English- Japanese Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Counselor Addiction Specialist.
My counseling philosophy is grounded in a profound respect for the human experience. Each client I work with inspires me with their courage, strength, and capacity for growth. It is an honor to be a part of their journey, and I am continually humbled by the opportunity to support their healing and transformation. Through empathy, connection, and a deep commitment to their well-being, I aim to help clients embrace their unique stories and build lives filled with meaning, purpose, and empowerment.
I am a bilingual English- Japanese Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Counselor Addiction Specialist.
My counseling philosophy is grounded in a profound respect for the human experience. Each client I work with inspires me with their courage, strength, and capacity for growth. It is an honor to be a part of their journey, and I am continually humbled by the opportunity to support their healing and transformation. Through empathy, connection, and a deep commitment to their well-being, I aim to help clients embrace their unique stories and build lives filled with meaning, purpose, and empowerment.
Hear me out, maybe you are here because you can explain everything and still feel stuck.
Maybe you have spent time trying to understand yourself and your patterns, and it still does not change how things feel. For starters, you are not lacking insight. A lot of my clients are deep thinkers who can make sense of everything and still feel stuck in it. I know that space personally. My own experience with anxiety and depression is what led me here. Our work deepens your insight and helps it shift how you relate to your experience. It is about developing insight that actually changes something, with reflective and philosophical depth.
Hear me out, maybe you are here because you can explain everything and still feel stuck.
Maybe you have spent time trying to understand yourself and your patterns, and it still does not change how things feel. For starters, you are not lacking insight. A lot of my clients are deep thinkers who can make sense of everything and still feel stuck in it. I know that space personally. My own experience with anxiety and depression is what led me here. Our work deepens your insight and helps it shift how you relate to your experience. It is about developing insight that actually changes something, with reflective and philosophical depth.
Parenting a child with trauma history will bring up things in you, too.
Maybe it's the constant vigilance, the guilt when you lose patience, or the grief for the family life you imagined. Maybe it's the exhaustion of being tested by a child who pushes away the very love they need most.
Developmental trauma — from inconsistent early caregiving, a difficult birth, early medical trauma, abuse, or neglect — reshapes how a child experiences safety and connection. These are often the kids who need love most but ask for it in the most unlovable ways. Understanding the "why" behind the behavior is where healing starts.
Parenting a child with trauma history will bring up things in you, too.
Maybe it's the constant vigilance, the guilt when you lose patience, or the grief for the family life you imagined. Maybe it's the exhaustion of being tested by a child who pushes away the very love they need most.
Developmental trauma — from inconsistent early caregiving, a difficult birth, early medical trauma, abuse, or neglect — reshapes how a child experiences safety and connection. These are often the kids who need love most but ask for it in the most unlovable ways. Understanding the "why" behind the behavior is where healing starts.
The individuals I work with are psychologically healthy and can learn to think and decide for themselves. Due to stress, grief, anger ,anxiety,fear etc. they may need the aid of someone to guide them toward making positive change in their lives or setting goals for a new direction in life .I enjoy serving a diverse group of people , however specialties include working with women issues such as single parents, domestic violence, and animal assisted therapy.
The individuals I work with are psychologically healthy and can learn to think and decide for themselves. Due to stress, grief, anger ,anxiety,fear etc. they may need the aid of someone to guide them toward making positive change in their lives or setting goals for a new direction in life .I enjoy serving a diverse group of people , however specialties include working with women issues such as single parents, domestic violence, and animal assisted therapy.
Online Therapists
Life can be challenging. We all face trials that experience disappointment, hurt, and drained of hope and joy. In these moments, therapy can offer guidance, clarity, and healing. I believe everyone has the capacity to grow and thrive with the right support. My focus areas include attachment injuries, trauma, life transitions, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, grief, emotional healing, and spiritual struggles. My goal is to help you reconnect with your strengths, build emotional resilience, and move toward a more balanced, authentic, and fulfilling life. Together, we can work toward healing and rediscovering hope for your future.
Life can be challenging. We all face trials that experience disappointment, hurt, and drained of hope and joy. In these moments, therapy can offer guidance, clarity, and healing. I believe everyone has the capacity to grow and thrive with the right support. My focus areas include attachment injuries, trauma, life transitions, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, grief, emotional healing, and spiritual struggles. My goal is to help you reconnect with your strengths, build emotional resilience, and move toward a more balanced, authentic, and fulfilling life. Together, we can work toward healing and rediscovering hope for your future.
Ikigai Counseling and Consulting PLLC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MA, LCMHC, LCAS-A, QS
Online Only
Taking the first step toward therapy is a courageous decision. I provide a supportive, compassionate space where individuals facing anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem concerns, and life challenges can heal and grow. Using evidence-based approaches including CBT, TF-CBT, CPT, DBT, Collaborative Problem Solving, attachment-based, and family systems therapies, we tailor treatment to your unique needs. Together, we will build insight, resilience, and practical skills to help you create meaningful, lasting change. We would be honored to support you on your journey.
Taking the first step toward therapy is a courageous decision. I provide a supportive, compassionate space where individuals facing anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem concerns, and life challenges can heal and grow. Using evidence-based approaches including CBT, TF-CBT, CPT, DBT, Collaborative Problem Solving, attachment-based, and family systems therapies, we tailor treatment to your unique needs. Together, we will build insight, resilience, and practical skills to help you create meaningful, lasting change. We would be honored to support you on your journey.
Cindy Huang is a bilingual psychotherapist fluent in English and Chinese Mandarin.
Licensed in NC and SC, Cindy uses evidence-based, holistic, person-centered therapeutic approaches like CBT, DBT, REBT, and Motivational Interviewing. These methods provide emotional support, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral training. Through strong therapeutic alliances, Cindy fosters a safe environment for personal growth and resilience.
Cindy Huang is a bilingual psychotherapist fluent in English and Chinese Mandarin.
Licensed in NC and SC, Cindy uses evidence-based, holistic, person-centered therapeutic approaches like CBT, DBT, REBT, and Motivational Interviewing. These methods provide emotional support, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral training. Through strong therapeutic alliances, Cindy fosters a safe environment for personal growth and resilience.
Morning Light Wellness, PLLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LCMHCS, CCFC
Mooresville, NC 28117
Families facing separation, divorce, custody disputes, parent-child estrangement, or high-conflict co-parenting often need more than emotional support. They need structure, clarity, and a calm clinical professional who understands how family stress, legal involvement, and relational wounds can affect parents and children. I provide specialized support for families navigating complex transitions, including co-parenting counseling, reunification therapy, conflict management, and family systems work. My work bridges clinical care and forensic understanding while keeping the well-being of children and families at the center.
Families facing separation, divorce, custody disputes, parent-child estrangement, or high-conflict co-parenting often need more than emotional support. They need structure, clarity, and a calm clinical professional who understands how family stress, legal involvement, and relational wounds can affect parents and children. I provide specialized support for families navigating complex transitions, including co-parenting counseling, reunification therapy, conflict management, and family systems work. My work bridges clinical care and forensic understanding while keeping the well-being of children and families at the center.
Are you trapped in a relationship with a narcissistic partner? Are you a survivor of abuse or neglect and would like to gain your quality of life back? Do you have a child or teen who is constantly struggling at home and at school? You are taking the right step by getting help! It took a lot of courage to overcome the stigma and reach this point. You don't have to walk alone.
I can help you find the strength within yourself to navigate troubled waters.
Are you trapped in a relationship with a narcissistic partner? Are you a survivor of abuse or neglect and would like to gain your quality of life back? Do you have a child or teen who is constantly struggling at home and at school? You are taking the right step by getting help! It took a lot of courage to overcome the stigma and reach this point. You don't have to walk alone.
I can help you find the strength within yourself to navigate troubled waters.
Hello! My name is Lillian and I am a Mental Health Counselor. I am passionate about supporting people's healing, growth, and development. By creating a safe space through providing unconditional positive regard and acceptance, my hope is that you will feel free to explore the hidden parts of yourself, thus allowing for healing, change, and growth. Self-exploration leads to self-awareness and self-love, which is at the heart of all healing.
I also teach parenting skills and education on how to build a healthy relationship with your child. Let's end the patterns of inter-generational trauma!
Hello! My name is Lillian and I am a Mental Health Counselor. I am passionate about supporting people's healing, growth, and development. By creating a safe space through providing unconditional positive regard and acceptance, my hope is that you will feel free to explore the hidden parts of yourself, thus allowing for healing, change, and growth. Self-exploration leads to self-awareness and self-love, which is at the heart of all healing.
I also teach parenting skills and education on how to build a healthy relationship with your child. Let's end the patterns of inter-generational trauma!
My goal is to provide affirming care that centers your unique experiences, challenges, and resiliency. I believe that each person is the expert of their own experience; my work is to provide support and tools to aid your healing process while building our genuine trust and connection. As an advocate for social justice and a queer person of color myself, I am grounded in the understanding that institutional and social forces influence mental health. My approach welcomes clients to explore these in session along with everyday issues.
My goal is to provide affirming care that centers your unique experiences, challenges, and resiliency. I believe that each person is the expert of their own experience; my work is to provide support and tools to aid your healing process while building our genuine trust and connection. As an advocate for social justice and a queer person of color myself, I am grounded in the understanding that institutional and social forces influence mental health. My approach welcomes clients to explore these in session along with everyday issues.
Do you think deeply, feel intensely, and get stuck in your head? I work with highly sensitive, thoughtful adults who are high‑functioning on paper but struggling inside with anxiety, shame, burnout, or emptiness. Many of my clients have complex or developmental trauma and identify as introverted, perfectionistic, or neurodivergent (often ADHD or autistic). I offer online therapy for adults across North Carolina and Arizona.
Do you think deeply, feel intensely, and get stuck in your head? I work with highly sensitive, thoughtful adults who are high‑functioning on paper but struggling inside with anxiety, shame, burnout, or emptiness. Many of my clients have complex or developmental trauma and identify as introverted, perfectionistic, or neurodivergent (often ADHD or autistic). I offer online therapy for adults across North Carolina and Arizona.
I am a clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher who empowers people using the guiding principles of empathy, curiosity, cultural humility, and collaboration. I take an integrative, somatic, and highly relational approach and work to understand how the intersection of your unique experiences impact today. I remain committed to working with people as they face a range of experiences, including multicultural concerns, oppression, identity exploration, trauma, anxiety, depression, queer/LGB+ concerns, trans and gender identity related concerns, relationship concerns, chronic illness, and grief.
I am a clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher who empowers people using the guiding principles of empathy, curiosity, cultural humility, and collaboration. I take an integrative, somatic, and highly relational approach and work to understand how the intersection of your unique experiences impact today. I remain committed to working with people as they face a range of experiences, including multicultural concerns, oppression, identity exploration, trauma, anxiety, depression, queer/LGB+ concerns, trans and gender identity related concerns, relationship concerns, chronic illness, and grief.
Your emotions sweep you off your feet, making balance feel impossible to achieve. You try suppressing your thoughts and feelings, but the underlying causes go unaddressed and you get stuck in the same shame spiral again and again. It's normal to have big emotions, but what would life look like if you learned how to ride these waves and still work towards the things that matter most to you? Although change can feel daunting, I'm here to tell you it is possible. I want to walk beside you as you discover and embrace your authentic self, and channel your strengths to cultivate resilience as you work through the tough stuff.
Your emotions sweep you off your feet, making balance feel impossible to achieve. You try suppressing your thoughts and feelings, but the underlying causes go unaddressed and you get stuck in the same shame spiral again and again. It's normal to have big emotions, but what would life look like if you learned how to ride these waves and still work towards the things that matter most to you? Although change can feel daunting, I'm here to tell you it is possible. I want to walk beside you as you discover and embrace your authentic self, and channel your strengths to cultivate resilience as you work through the tough stuff.
You're a deep feeler, a creative thinker, or someone longing for meaning and fulfillment. Maybe you're a healer, therapist, caregiver, or changemaker navigating systems that don’t align with your values. Or maybe you're feeling stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from your creativity or spirituality.
You've overcome trauma, but new changes are bringing up emotions that feel overwhelming. Your coping skills no longer work, and while loved ones want to help, they don’t know how. Beneath it all, your inner child longs to be seen—to dream freely, create without fear, and trust in life again. You're ready to heal, rewrite your story, and
You're a deep feeler, a creative thinker, or someone longing for meaning and fulfillment. Maybe you're a healer, therapist, caregiver, or changemaker navigating systems that don’t align with your values. Or maybe you're feeling stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from your creativity or spirituality.
You've overcome trauma, but new changes are bringing up emotions that feel overwhelming. Your coping skills no longer work, and while loved ones want to help, they don’t know how. Beneath it all, your inner child longs to be seen—to dream freely, create without fear, and trust in life again. You're ready to heal, rewrite your story, and
If you struggle with how your past continues to impact who you are today, you are ready and willing to take concrete steps to process it; let's talk. Your past wounds do not have to control how you are experiencing your life today. I want to learn what happened to you and go beyond a diagnosis that may have been given to you. I specialize in treating complex trauma/PTSD and dissociation.
My ideal clients are motivated and actively engaged in their own healing journey. I truly believe we are the 'placebo factor' in this process, and this is also backed by science, and a therapist is a witness to this process.
If you struggle with how your past continues to impact who you are today, you are ready and willing to take concrete steps to process it; let's talk. Your past wounds do not have to control how you are experiencing your life today. I want to learn what happened to you and go beyond a diagnosis that may have been given to you. I specialize in treating complex trauma/PTSD and dissociation.
My ideal clients are motivated and actively engaged in their own healing journey. I truly believe we are the 'placebo factor' in this process, and this is also backed by science, and a therapist is a witness to this process.
Mental wellness has an impact on all of us, from someone who is fighting through it to even ourselves struggling with it everyday. The stigma of seeking help is still present, but Take Control of your own Revolution. We want to help our patients identify the core concerns that they face, help them restructure their negative thought patterns and teach them techniques to reduce their concerns.
Mental wellness has an impact on all of us, from someone who is fighting through it to even ourselves struggling with it everyday. The stigma of seeking help is still present, but Take Control of your own Revolution. We want to help our patients identify the core concerns that they face, help them restructure their negative thought patterns and teach them techniques to reduce their concerns.
At some point in our lives, we all face challenges and difficulties. As a counselor, I feel it is my job to help guide and walk with you through these challenges. Through our work, we can navigate life’s obstacles and hardships and move towards accomplishing your therapeutic goals. I believe in illuminating my client’s strengths and utilizing those strengths to conquer anything that stands in their way of wellness, peace, and contentment. Our sessions can be a place to prioritize your needs in a safe, non-judgmental space.
At some point in our lives, we all face challenges and difficulties. As a counselor, I feel it is my job to help guide and walk with you through these challenges. Through our work, we can navigate life’s obstacles and hardships and move towards accomplishing your therapeutic goals. I believe in illuminating my client’s strengths and utilizing those strengths to conquer anything that stands in their way of wellness, peace, and contentment. Our sessions can be a place to prioritize your needs in a safe, non-judgmental space.
- As a first generation Asian American woman, I know firsthand how hard navigating life can be.
My specialties include working with individuals that have mood and personality disorders. Young adults dealing with life transitions. Individuals wanting to unpack and process trauma. I work well with people that have strong ambition and drive to improve their life circumstances.
- As a first generation Asian American woman, I know firsthand how hard navigating life can be.
My specialties include working with individuals that have mood and personality disorders. Young adults dealing with life transitions. Individuals wanting to unpack and process trauma. I work well with people that have strong ambition and drive to improve their life circumstances.
As a first generation disabled Asian American, I bring all of my identities to the table without shame and encourage others to as well.
I have extensive experience in career counseling and have spent a great number of those years creating spaces of belonging for those identifying with a disability in spaces of employment. Additionally, as a disabled person, I come with knowledge and community resources for those who have access needs or need support navigating through ableist systems.
As a first generation disabled Asian American, I bring all of my identities to the table without shame and encourage others to as well.
I have extensive experience in career counseling and have spent a great number of those years creating spaces of belonging for those identifying with a disability in spaces of employment. Additionally, as a disabled person, I come with knowledge and community resources for those who have access needs or need support navigating through ableist systems.
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FAQ - Asian Counseling
What can an Asian therapist help with?
An Asian therapist can help with the same concerns as any other therapist, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, stress, grief, and major life transitions. How an Asian therapist can make the experience feel different, however, is the possibility of shared cultural understanding. If you identify with a background such as Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Filipino, or Japanese, working with a therapist who shares or understands aspects of your culture may help you feel more comfortable opening up on such topics.
What role can language play in therapy?
Language can play an important role in therapy because people often express emotions, family dynamics, and personal experiences differently depending on the language they are speaking. For some individuals, working with a therapist who speaks their native language, whether it be Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, or another language, may help sessions feel more natural and emotionally connected. Even if you are fluent in English, certain thoughts or feelings may still feel easier to communicate in your native language.
How can an Asian therapist support couples counseling or family therapy?
Cultural background can play an important role in couples counseling and family therapy, particularly when family expectations, communication styles, generational differences, or cultural traditions are influencing the relationship. An Asian therapist may help partners and family members navigate these topics with more cultural understanding and less need to explain the context behind them. For multicultural or multilingual families, a Asian therapist who is bilingual may also help ensure that each person feels heard and understood during sessions.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience with Asian clients?
If cultural background is important to you in therapy, it can be helpful to ask prospective therapists whether they have experience working with clients who share your cultural background or speak your preferred language. In initial conversations with potential therapists, you might also ask whether they have worked with clients experiencing concerns related to identity, intergenerational conflict, family expectations, or cultural stigma around mental health.
Who is included in Psychology Today’s directory of Asian therapists?
The directory of Asian therapists includes professionals who have shared their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profiles, and they may not appear in search results for this reason; also, when the number of therapists identified as Asian is limited, the directory will also show therapists with comprehensive experience working with clients from relevant backgrounds.