Mi Jung You

Mi Jung You is a New York-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and relationship difficulties. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, and life transitions. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people notice what gets in the way of everyday functioning. Sessions include practical skills and reflective conversation so clients can try new strategies between meetings. Mi Jung blends cognitive behavioral tools with emotion-focused and client-centered methods. That combination helps people change unhelpful thoughts, regulate strong emotions, and build clearer communication. She also draws on attachment-informed ideas when past relationships shape current patterns. Parents and caregivers will find a focus on issues like parenting stress, caregiver strain, sleep problems, and family conflict. She addresses concerns related to addictions, body image, chronic illness, and codependency as well. She offers services in English and Korean and works with people facing ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also covers abandonment, attachment wounds, dissociation, and eating and food-related struggles. Mi Jung asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling. That helps pair goals and practical needs with the right plan for therapy.

How specific approaches shape online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small steps toward values-based living. It focuses on actions a person wants to build and practical exercises that reduce avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and teaches tools to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns formed early in life and how they affect current connections and emotions. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that seem to fit. That collaborative process can blend techniques so sessions match what a person needs at the time. Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a shorter conversation helps. It can also let someone use a session while traveling or during a work break when that timing supports consistent progress.