About Yung-Mei
Yung-Mei Leong, MD, is a psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, ADHD, and phobias. She focuses on practical steps and steady support so people can cope better with daily pressures and big life changes. She uses clear, concrete techniques to address anxious thinking and compulsive behaviors.
Sessions aim to identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with actions that feel manageable. Patients leave with real strategies they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She encourages honesty and slow, steady progress rather than quick fixes. The room is a place to speak plainly about fears, shame, or relationship strain and to rehearse different ways of responding.
With eight years of psychotherapy experience and an MD, she has worked in multiple clinical settings and brings that variety to her practice in Maryland. That background informs how she tailors plans to each person’s situation and goals. Yung-Mei pays attention to cultural and life-stage factors that shape stress and mood.
She also supports people dealing with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic attacks, social anxiety, isolation, grief, immigration-related stress, and concerns tied to kink or non-monogamous relationships. Work together focuses on small, doable steps and growing self-compassion.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Yung-Mei uses evidence-based techniques that target thinking and behavior patterns. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. This helps reduce anxiety, panic symptoms, and obsessive thinking by changing what people do and notice in day-to-day life.She also emphasizes skills for emotional regulation and coping. These techniques teach simple steps to manage intense feelings, improve attention for people with ADHD, and lower the urge to avoid situations tied to phobias. Work is practical and skill-based, so people can use tools between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. She will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, comfort level, and lifestyle. Together they adapt techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and working through anxious reactions in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a problem. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to keep steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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