Mandarin-Speaking Therapists in New York, NY
You may be feeling overwhelmed by stress, health concerns, or a life transition that’s left you unsure of your next steps. Perhaps anxiety, mood changes, or the mind-body connection feel hard to untangle, or you’re seeking support for a child, teen, or yourself across adulthood. You want relief, clarity, and practical tools—not just to cope, but to feel more grounded, confident, and in control of your well-being.
You may be feeling overwhelmed by stress, health concerns, or a life transition that’s left you unsure of your next steps. Perhaps anxiety, mood changes, or the mind-body connection feel hard to untangle, or you’re seeking support for a child, teen, or yourself across adulthood. You want relief, clarity, and practical tools—not just to cope, but to feel more grounded, confident, and in control of your well-being.
In addition to English, I speak Cantonese and Mandarin fluently, and welcome clients who prefer these languages!
I am a licensed psychologist in New York. I have extensive experience in treating different psychological disorders, including but not limited to eating disorders, anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
I know that therapy can be challenging, and getting the help we need can be an arduous, often frustrating process. I am here to help you achieve your goals and the wellness you deserve in a judgement free environment using the most effective and tested methods.
In addition to English, I speak Cantonese and Mandarin fluently, and welcome clients who prefer these languages!
I am a licensed psychologist in New York. I have extensive experience in treating different psychological disorders, including but not limited to eating disorders, anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
I know that therapy can be challenging, and getting the help we need can be an arduous, often frustrating process. I am here to help you achieve your goals and the wellness you deserve in a judgement free environment using the most effective and tested methods.
I'm fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and my own experience navigating different cultural contexts informs the way I approach therapy with curiosity, openness, and cultural awareness.
My approach is inquisitive and exploratory. I'll support you in examining the patterns, beliefs, and past experiences that shape your sense of identity and how you relate to others. In our work together, I aim to be both affirming and gently challenging, helping you deepen your self-understanding while also building practical tools for change.
I'm fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and my own experience navigating different cultural contexts informs the way I approach therapy with curiosity, openness, and cultural awareness.
My approach is inquisitive and exploratory. I'll support you in examining the patterns, beliefs, and past experiences that shape your sense of identity and how you relate to others. In our work together, I aim to be both affirming and gently challenging, helping you deepen your self-understanding while also building practical tools for change.
Chou is proficient in English and Mandarin.
Her clinical approach is a seamless fusion of systemic and holistic methodologies, uniquely designed to alleviate human suffering within the intricate web of relationships. Drawing from a multicultural perspective, Dr. Chou employs a trauma-informed emotion-focused approach to treatment.
Chou is proficient in English and Mandarin.
Her clinical approach is a seamless fusion of systemic and holistic methodologies, uniquely designed to alleviate human suffering within the intricate web of relationships. Drawing from a multicultural perspective, Dr. Chou employs a trauma-informed emotion-focused approach to treatment.
Speak Mandarin, Chinese.
I have been in private practice for 30 years. Founder & Coordinator of Student Counseling at Hunter College's International English Language Institute where I counseled students from all over the world. In my full time practice I see people from the international, business, professional and student communities. Additionally, if you struggle with relationship difficulties, loss, depression or anxiety please contact me. I will work patiently together with you to help you better understand yourself and use your insight to change and grow. You will have a thorough consultation after which I will recommend an appropriate treatment.
Speak Mandarin, Chinese.
I have been in private practice for 30 years. Founder & Coordinator of Student Counseling at Hunter College's International English Language Institute where I counseled students from all over the world. In my full time practice I see people from the international, business, professional and student communities. Additionally, if you struggle with relationship difficulties, loss, depression or anxiety please contact me. I will work patiently together with you to help you better understand yourself and use your insight to change and grow. You will have a thorough consultation after which I will recommend an appropriate treatment.
I believe growing up multiracial ( Chinese; White) and queer positioned me well to see how uniquely multifaceted each person is.
As your therapist, I work from a psychodynamic and relational frame. We will examine and honor your history, present, desires, and anxieties to not just mitigate symptoms of discomfort, but to increase your sense of agency and self esteem; improve your ability to recognize and handle feelings; and expand your capacity to work, love, and connect with others.
I believe growing up multiracial ( Chinese; White) and queer positioned me well to see how uniquely multifaceted each person is.
As your therapist, I work from a psychodynamic and relational frame. We will examine and honor your history, present, desires, and anxieties to not just mitigate symptoms of discomfort, but to increase your sense of agency and self esteem; improve your ability to recognize and handle feelings; and expand your capacity to work, love, and connect with others.
My ideal client is someone who may feel lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected—perhaps from themselves, from others, or from the life they once envisioned. They might be struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, perfectionism, cultural identity conflicts, or difficulties in navigating major life transitions.
Deep down, they long for more than just symptom relief. They seek clarity, inner peace, authentic connection, and the freedom to live more fully as who they are. They want to understand their patterns, heal old wounds, and cultivate a life that feels meaningful and self-directed.
My ideal client is someone who may feel lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected—perhaps from themselves, from others, or from the life they once envisioned. They might be struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, perfectionism, cultural identity conflicts, or difficulties in navigating major life transitions.
Deep down, they long for more than just symptom relief. They seek clarity, inner peace, authentic connection, and the freedom to live more fully as who they are. They want to understand their patterns, heal old wounds, and cultivate a life that feels meaningful and self-directed.
As a bilingual ( Mandarin/English) Asian woman therapist, I understand the unique challenges of the minority experience—from navigating generational gaps to processing cultural dilemmas and the complexities of Asian American identity.
My therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and deeply attuned to your lived experience. I know that feelings of guilt and shame often arise when trying to balance personal needs with cultural and family expectations. Together, we can gently explore these emotions, helping you move towards more self-compassion, assuredness, and balance.
As a bilingual ( Mandarin/English) Asian woman therapist, I understand the unique challenges of the minority experience—from navigating generational gaps to processing cultural dilemmas and the complexities of Asian American identity.
My therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and deeply attuned to your lived experience. I know that feelings of guilt and shame often arise when trying to balance personal needs with cultural and family expectations. Together, we can gently explore these emotions, helping you move towards more self-compassion, assuredness, and balance.
I believe therapy should be client-centered and take an integrative perspective, bringing techniques from various approaches such as psychodynamic, creative art therapy, CBT, mindfulness practice, and interpersonal therapy. I am also trauma-informed and hope to create a safe space for you to explore your past and create new experiences for the future. I honor the time spent together in building a collaborative alliance with my clients and I am curious to understand individual's life from their sociocultural backgrounds.
I believe therapy should be client-centered and take an integrative perspective, bringing techniques from various approaches such as psychodynamic, creative art therapy, CBT, mindfulness practice, and interpersonal therapy. I am also trauma-informed and hope to create a safe space for you to explore your past and create new experiences for the future. I honor the time spent together in building a collaborative alliance with my clients and I am curious to understand individual's life from their sociocultural backgrounds.
I offer therapy in Mandarin and Cantonese, so you never have to translate parts of your story.
Your story is uniquely yours, and this is a collaborative journey toward understanding yourself more deeply and breaking cycles. Do you find yourself overthinking, feeling pressure to hold everything together, or carrying expectations from your family that were never yours to choose? Over time, this can build up and impact every aspect of your life.
Together, we will explore the patterns that keep you feeling stuck, reduce the emotional weight you’ve been carrying, quiet the constant noise of self-doubt, and help you build a life that feels authentic and truly fulfilling. My goal is to help you find the light when you can't see it.
I offer therapy in Mandarin and Cantonese, so you never have to translate parts of your story.
Your story is uniquely yours, and this is a collaborative journey toward understanding yourself more deeply and breaking cycles. Do you find yourself overthinking, feeling pressure to hold everything together, or carrying expectations from your family that were never yours to choose? Over time, this can build up and impact every aspect of your life.
Together, we will explore the patterns that keep you feeling stuck, reduce the emotional weight you’ve been carrying, quiet the constant noise of self-doubt, and help you build a life that feels authentic and truly fulfilling. My goal is to help you find the light when you can't see it.
I strive to create a warm and supportive space where you can explore the deeper parts of yourself with care and curiosity. I use a psychodynamic approach, working alongside you to better understand your thoughts, emotions, and patterns. My training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) allows me to guide you through this journey with insight and depth. I also recognize the beauty and complexity of language, valuing the importance of expressing yourself in your mother tongue if that brings you comfort and authenticity.
I strive to create a warm and supportive space where you can explore the deeper parts of yourself with care and curiosity. I use a psychodynamic approach, working alongside you to better understand your thoughts, emotions, and patterns. My training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) allows me to guide you through this journey with insight and depth. I also recognize the beauty and complexity of language, valuing the importance of expressing yourself in your mother tongue if that brings you comfort and authenticity.
You may be navigating life as an immigrant, in recovery, or carrying the weight of intergenerational patterns and cultural expectations that don't have easy names. Perhaps you've had a profound or difficult psychedelic experience and don't know what to do with what surfaced. Or you've tried traditional therapy, and it didn't quite fit.
I work with adults navigating trauma, substance use, and cultural identity, especially immigrants, first-generation, and BIPOC individuals. As an immigrant clinician trained in EMDR, harm reduction, and psychedelic integration, I bring both personal understanding and clinical precision.
You may be navigating life as an immigrant, in recovery, or carrying the weight of intergenerational patterns and cultural expectations that don't have easy names. Perhaps you've had a profound or difficult psychedelic experience and don't know what to do with what surfaced. Or you've tried traditional therapy, and it didn't quite fit.
I work with adults navigating trauma, substance use, and cultural identity, especially immigrants, first-generation, and BIPOC individuals. As an immigrant clinician trained in EMDR, harm reduction, and psychedelic integration, I bring both personal understanding and clinical precision.
I believe each person holds the key to success and therapy is a form of guiding process to achieve these goals in life. Thus, I focus on empowering individuals and gaining further insight and understanding. I believe in not just focusing on the difficulties and issues, but also building skills and capacity in preparation of future challenges. Clients describe me as authentic, compassionate and empathetic. We work collaboratively on building on solutions to move forward in life and elevate you to a more positive life style in general.
I believe each person holds the key to success and therapy is a form of guiding process to achieve these goals in life. Thus, I focus on empowering individuals and gaining further insight and understanding. I believe in not just focusing on the difficulties and issues, but also building skills and capacity in preparation of future challenges. Clients describe me as authentic, compassionate and empathetic. We work collaboratively on building on solutions to move forward in life and elevate you to a more positive life style in general.
It would be my honor to be a part of my clients' healing journeys and help them gain the self-awareness and empowerment needed to live their authentic truths. I strive to foster authentic therapeutic relationships with my clients through culturally inclusive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed care. I specialize in psychodynamic, intersectional, and holistic approaches to psychotherapy. My theoretical orientations draw from Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and Nervous System Regulation to address trauma within the body.
It would be my honor to be a part of my clients' healing journeys and help them gain the self-awareness and empowerment needed to live their authentic truths. I strive to foster authentic therapeutic relationships with my clients through culturally inclusive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed care. I specialize in psychodynamic, intersectional, and holistic approaches to psychotherapy. My theoretical orientations draw from Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and Nervous System Regulation to address trauma within the body.
If you're struggling with feelings of sadness, anxiety, or just having difficulty managing relationships and life transitions, sometimes it's hard not to feel stuck when you feel like you don't know where to start. Whether you're a beginner in therapy or have had it before and wanting to start up again, we're here to help.
If you're struggling with feelings of sadness, anxiety, or just having difficulty managing relationships and life transitions, sometimes it's hard not to feel stuck when you feel like you don't know where to start. Whether you're a beginner in therapy or have had it before and wanting to start up again, we're here to help.
I speak English and Chinese.
I specialize in helping adults heal from complex childhood trauma, and the marks it leaves on you: a relentless inner critic, the reflex to please, difficulty trusting, recurring emotional pain, and the patterns that leave you feeling stuck in your relationships. Together, we'll work toward a softer, kinder relationship with yourself, and toward connections with others that truly nourish who you are. In our work, we slow down and reconnect with the parts of you that learned to hide pain and need. Together, we make space for long-suppressed feelings, grief, anger, tenderness, so they can transform into clarity and vitality.
I speak English and Chinese.
I specialize in helping adults heal from complex childhood trauma, and the marks it leaves on you: a relentless inner critic, the reflex to please, difficulty trusting, recurring emotional pain, and the patterns that leave you feeling stuck in your relationships. Together, we'll work toward a softer, kinder relationship with yourself, and toward connections with others that truly nourish who you are. In our work, we slow down and reconnect with the parts of you that learned to hide pain and need. Together, we make space for long-suppressed feelings, grief, anger, tenderness, so they can transform into clarity and vitality.
I work with teens, young adults, adults, older adults, LGBTQ+ clients, and couples, providing therapy in English and Mandarin.
Therapy can be a space to pause, reflect, and explore how we experience ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. I aim to make this process a collaborative journey, where you bring your experiences and goals, and together we examine the patterns, beliefs, or stories that may be standing between you and the life you want. By exploring these narratives, we can identify what serves you, what might be rewritten, and how to access your own strengths and resilience. My focus includes childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, self-image, interpersonal relationships, and personal growth.
I work with teens, young adults, adults, older adults, LGBTQ+ clients, and couples, providing therapy in English and Mandarin.
Therapy can be a space to pause, reflect, and explore how we experience ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. I aim to make this process a collaborative journey, where you bring your experiences and goals, and together we examine the patterns, beliefs, or stories that may be standing between you and the life you want. By exploring these narratives, we can identify what serves you, what might be rewritten, and how to access your own strengths and resilience. My focus includes childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, self-image, interpersonal relationships, and personal growth.
I believe in the individual's unique experience. We all have parts of ourselves that we don't recognize, don't understand, or simply feel we cannot change. In our nonjudgmental, safe space and with you as the captain, we will discover what is causing the difficulties in your life, and how you can grow into a more fulfilling way of living. At times, I will challenge you to dig deeper, but I will support you every step of the way.
I believe in the individual's unique experience. We all have parts of ourselves that we don't recognize, don't understand, or simply feel we cannot change. In our nonjudgmental, safe space and with you as the captain, we will discover what is causing the difficulties in your life, and how you can grow into a more fulfilling way of living. At times, I will challenge you to dig deeper, but I will support you every step of the way.
Life places demands on us: to function, perform, produce, and to simply be normal. In response, we find ways to cope, though they often don’t feel like coping at all. Instead, they may appear as panic attacks, depressed days, spiraling, compulsions restrictive or binge eating, or chronic headaches. These experiences can feel confusing and frightening, especially when they seem to arise without clear reason. But they are not random. They are attempts, however imperfect, to manage something difficult or overwhelming. Symptoms, in this sense, are solutions. I believe the path through suffering begins with speaking to another person.
Life places demands on us: to function, perform, produce, and to simply be normal. In response, we find ways to cope, though they often don’t feel like coping at all. Instead, they may appear as panic attacks, depressed days, spiraling, compulsions restrictive or binge eating, or chronic headaches. These experiences can feel confusing and frightening, especially when they seem to arise without clear reason. But they are not random. They are attempts, however imperfect, to manage something difficult or overwhelming. Symptoms, in this sense, are solutions. I believe the path through suffering begins with speaking to another person.
My therapeutic practice focuses on adults at all stages of life who feel stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from themselves. My approach is honest and collaborative—you’ll never have to figure things out alone. Together, we’ll unpack what’s weighing you down, reconnect with what truly matters, and build a life that feels more grounded, aligned, and fulfilling.
My therapeutic practice focuses on adults at all stages of life who feel stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from themselves. My approach is honest and collaborative—you’ll never have to figure things out alone. Together, we’ll unpack what’s weighing you down, reconnect with what truly matters, and build a life that feels more grounded, aligned, and fulfilling.
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