Jiayi ShaoCounselor, LMHC, MA, EdM (she, they)

About

English | 中文 I often think of therapy as learning to listen to a river underground —that quiet but persistent current of feeling beneath our everyday selves. Sometimes surfacing as a spring, clear and alive, carrying something forgotten back into the light. My role isn't to chart the river for you, but to walk beside you as we gently uncover its rhythm, depth, and the places where it might have gotten blocked or redirected. I’m Shao, a queer bilingual therapist walking at the intersection of cultures, languages, and ways of healing. I’m here to help you listen for what’s quietly asking to be heard. I work with clients who feel deeply—those who sense too much, think too hard, carry the weight of being “not enough” or hold stories no one else seems to hear. My approach blends Relational Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and DBT with Zen, metaphor, art, dreams and somatic work—to follow what rises in image, sensation or silence, and let it be heard.

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