About Feifei
Feifei Chen is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings three years of clinical experience to her work. Feifei speaks English and Mandarin and aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed.
She supports people who are managing stress and anxiety, coping with depression, or facing major life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, and career-related worries.
Background and approach
Feifei pays attention to issues that often feel linked, such as family of origin problems, communication breakdowns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on listening closely and creating space to talk through difficult emotions.
She uses client-centered methods that follow each person’s pace and priorities, and she incorporates mindfulness practices to help people stay grounded between sessions. Feifei works with people navigating divorce or separation, immigration-related stress, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses social anxiety, self-worth struggles, and concerns common to young adults and women.
Language options include English and Mandarin to support clearer communication. To start, a simple matching process and scheduling step connect someone to Feifei. She aims to make each session practical, with small, doable steps people can try between meetings to manage symptoms and move toward clearer goals.
Client-centered and mindfulness approaches online
Client-centered Therapy puts the person’s own goals at the center of sessions. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows what matters most to the individual. This approach is useful for people who want someone to help them clarify their values, make choices, and feel understood.Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm. These practices can help with anxiety, stress, grief, and moments of overwhelm by teaching ways to notice feelings without getting swept away.
Feifei treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss your needs, preferences, and goals and then tailor session focus and tools together. This collaborative process helps decide whether more listening, practical exercises, or mindfulness work is the best next step.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see and hear one another for fuller communication, while phone sessions work well when video would be difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and help keep continuity of care across different schedules and locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English, Mandarin