About Eugene
Eugene Yamamoto is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and major life transitions. He focuses on practical steps that clients can use right away. He speaks English and offers sessions online for people inside and outside the United States.
With 30 years of experience, Eugene centers conversations on each person's goals and strengths. He treats the client as the expert on their own life and works to build confidence and motivation.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward, with clear ideas to try between meetings. He uses several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to what the person needs. That can mean learning new behavior patterns, practicing emotional skills, or looking at how attachment and relationships affect daily life.
Eugene draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods to guide the work. Clients often come for help with abandonment, attachment wounds, body image, caregiving stress, chronic conditions, or struggles with communication and control. He also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care history, blended family concerns, and the stresses of aging.
Therapy is offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Eugene uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users follow the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time based on therapist availability.
How different approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small steps toward a meaningful life rather than chasing perfect thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and adult relationships shape reactions and helps rebuild safer ways of relating to others.Eugene treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He listens to your goals and tries methods that fit your needs. If something doesn’t feel useful, he adjusts the plan so the work matches what matters most to you.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face to face when you can, phone needs less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people keep momentum and apply skills in daily life without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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