Yingshi Shen

Yingshi Shen is an AASW mental health social worker with five years' clinical experience. She supports people facing anxiety, depression, stress and relationship or family concerns. She also works with issues like body image, eating difficulties and feelings of isolation and loneliness.

Yingshi aims to make the first steps easier. She offers a warm, respectful and non-judgemental space where people can be heard. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and noticing strengths that can be built on.

Her style is person-centred and trauma-informed. That means she listens first, follows the person's pace, and uses approaches backed by evidence to guide the work. She helps people talk through difficult emotions and test small changes between sessions.

Practical skills and personal meaning are often part of the work. Conversations may include coping strategies for stress and anxiety, clearer communication around relationships, or exploring family of origin patterns. Yingshi also supports people navigating identity concerns such as gender dysphoria or attachment and abandonment wounds.

She works in English and Mandarin and brings a calm, collaborative manner to sessions. If someone is unsure where to start, Yingshi helps them map priorities and set realistic short-term goals. Her focus is on steady progress at a sustainable pace.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Yingshi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in a person-centred, trauma-informed way. Person-centred work focuses on understanding your experience and following your pace; it helps when someone needs acceptance and space to make sense of feelings. Trauma-informed practice means the therapist pays attention to how past distress shapes current patterns and works gently to avoid re-triggering while building new coping ways.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Yingshi will discuss different methods with you and decide together which fits your goals and comfort level. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and checking in about how it feels and whether it's helping.

Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when days are tight. It also lets people maintain continuity of care when living far from services. The therapist will help plan sessions so they suit your day-to-day life and therapeutic goals.