About Sixuan
Sixuan Bao is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with nine years of professional experience. She centers conversations on what matters to each person and helps them build on their strengths. Sixuan aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure.
She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what is most important to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and try practical alternatives. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are offered when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are central concerns. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma and abuse.
She also supports people facing career questions, motivation problems, low self-esteem, and grief. Phobias are included among the areas she helps with when fear and avoidance get in the way of daily life. Sixuan also addresses concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating issues, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas listed include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, and communication problems. She incorporates existential and Jungian ideas for clients who want to reflect on meaning and personal growth. Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin.
Sixuan aims to collaborate on goals and adjust approaches to fit each person’s needs and preferences.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Sixuan integrates client-centered therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to build practical skills. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following what matters most to the person, which helps people feel heard and take small steps toward change. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety and avoidant behavior.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT offers short, teachable tools for handling strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions, which can be useful for panic, intense fear, or chronic stress. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work; she collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video works well for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can support quick check-ins or work between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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