About Qiying
Qiying Zhou introduces herself simply and directly. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience and speaks English and Mandarin. She aims to build a calm, respectful space where people feel heard and understood.
She focuses on everyday struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep problems. She also helps people facing major life changes, grief, bipolar disorder, and addiction. Relationship concerns, intimacy issues, parenting strain, and career stress are part of her work as well.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when strong feelings and relationship patterns need attention. Qiying’s bilingual and bicultural background shapes how she listens. She can offer sessions in Mandarin or English and is familiar with multicultural and discrimination-related concerns.
She has worked in New Jersey healthcare and community settings for many years. Practical steps matter in her sessions. She listens, asks simple questions, and offers clear, small strategies to try between meetings.
Over time, those small steps are meant to ease stress, improve sleep, and increase confidence. She welcomes people who want steady, respectful support while they work toward clearer goals and better daily routines.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following each person’s lead. Online sessions using this approach give people space to set goals and move at their own pace while the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions the therapist and client can identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try concrete exercises or homework to change those patterns between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationship patterns and strong emotions need attention; this can work well in live conversations to notice reactions and try new responses.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences, and may blend approaches as those needs evolve.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touch points. These options give practical flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Mandarin