Xou Yang
Compassionate guidance for life’s challenges
LMHC, LCMHC Utah
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Languages
- English
About Xou
Xou Yang is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
With eight years of clinical experience and credentials as an LMHC and LCMHC, he offers practical support for common life challenges including parenting strain, anger, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. He also addresses more specific areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, infidelity and divorce, loneliness, men’s concerns, midlife transitions, sexual health, and social anxiety.
He draws on a range of evidence-informed methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing to help clients explore patterns, build coping skills, and pursue meaningful change. His approach centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and emotions can be examined together and workable strategies can be developed.
He frames therapy as a collaborative process, offering support and encouragement while guiding clients toward clearer goals and daily tools to manage symptoms and relationships. Based in Utah and working in English, he offers flexible online formats that can fit different schedules and preferences.
Prospective clients who are ready to begin can follow the provider’s intake steps to be matched and set an initial session according to availability.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Many clients find value in cognitive behavioral work for its focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building concrete skills to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and depression. CBT typically involves goal-focused exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that help clients change patterns affecting mood and functioning.Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships. It can help people clarify emotional needs, improve communication, and repair connection in close relationships or interpersonal patterns. EMDR is used to process distressing memories and reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions by combining guided recall with bilateral stimulation techniques, which some clients find helpful for post-traumatic stress and lingering trauma symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to review concerns, goals, and preferences and then adapts methods over time so treatment fits the client’s needs and pace. Clients are involved in choosing and adjusting strategies as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to attend sessions around work, family, or other commitments. These formats support ongoing access to licensed professionals and allow therapeutic work to continue even when in-person visits are impractical, helping clients maintain consistency while pursuing change.
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Experience
8+ years
Licensed
Utah, Massachusetts
Languages
English