About Qian
Qian Wang is an AASW social worker with ten years’ experience in mental health across Australia and New Zealand. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, eating concerns and parenting strains. He speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese and uses a calm, straightforward style in sessions.
His work balances practical skills and emotional understanding. Qian uses tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to reduce distress and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
He also draws on attachment and emotion-focused ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. He listens to stories without blame and helps people set small, achievable goals.
Parents are supported with clear strategies to manage conflict and family stress when that is relevant. Qian has particular experience with body image and eating-related issues, abandonment and attachment difficulties, codependency and communication problems. He also works with people experiencing immigration-related stress, guilt, shame and the long-term effects of abuse or domestic violence.
People describe his approach as warm and direct. He aims to help clients build skills they can use outside of sessions while also attending to deeper relational patterns. If someone needs a different kind of help, he will suggest alternative options or referrals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move life in a meaningful direction, and can be useful for anxiety, depression and avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and experiments to reduce symptoms like worry or unhelpful eating habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection styles and emotional responses, which can help with relationship strain, abandonment feelings and codependency.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether to focus first on skills, emotional processing or relationship patterns, and this can shift as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or step-by-step homework. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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