Sixuan Bao, LCSW

Sixuan Bao is a New York LCSW with nine years of clinical experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma, career questions, and anger. She works in English and Mandarin and focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier in daily life.

She sees clients who bring concerns such as low self-esteem, motivation struggles, grief, intimacy-related issues, addiction, and coping with life changes. She also works with people navigating identity and LGBT concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Anger is an identified focus area she addresses alongside other emotional and behavioral challenges.

Sixuan uses approaches like Client-Centered Therapy to center the client's perspective. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.

In sessions she treats the person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. Conversations tend to be straightforward and practical. Sixuan helps people try new ways of responding, practice small skills, and reflect on what works in their daily routines.

Her background includes work across clinical settings in New York over nearly a decade. That experience informs how she supports people facing complicated, overlapping problems such as co-morbidity, attachment issues, and compassion fatigue. To start, she asks about current goals and what the client hopes will change.

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