About Sixuan
Sixuan Bao is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who combines client-centered care with practical tools. She focuses on easing stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, career questions, and issues around self-esteem and confidence. She speaks English and Mandarin and draws on nine years of practice to guide people through difficult times.
She starts by listening and helping people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin with a clear goal and small, manageable steps. Sixuan uses straightforward strategies that fit daily life, along with space to reflect on deeper patterns when needed. Her work includes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Client-centered methods shape each session so people feel heard and involved in planning their path forward. Sixuan helps with grief, addiction concerns, intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating problems, and coping with life transitions.
Additional areas she addresses include attachment and body image issues, caregiving and aging concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends practical exercises with conversational exploration. People who choose her can expect a calm, collaborative atmosphere and practical options to try between sessions.
She supports clients who want concrete coping tools as well as those who wish to examine personal meaning and life direction.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sixuan uses client-centered therapy to keep each session focused on the person in front of her. That means conversations start with what feels most important to the client, and goals are set together so work is relevant and meaningful.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating disturbances, and for building practical coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to test different methods and adapt what isn’t helping. Together they review what’s working and adjust goals and strategies as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or multitasking is needed. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions and use short, focused communication when that fits their schedule.
These flexible options make it possible to keep regular momentum, try skills between meetings, and fit therapy into a busy life without long commutes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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