Albert Xiong

Let's take a moment to acknowledge you being here! Thank you for finding your way to me, and I hope we can work together to help you make meaningful change in your life. I'm Albert Xiong (he/him/his), and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist with 6 years of experience providing affirming therapy services to a wide variety of clients across multiple settings. As a gay, Chinese American, I get what it's like to navigate facets of our identities that can sometimes feel at odds.

In the (virtual) therapy room, you can expect me to be an animated and relatively lighthearted therapist; I pride myself on bringing my genuine self into our therapeutic relationship, and that's someone who's curious and playful.

Milton Erickson said, "[clients] have grim enough lives, let's not give them grim therapy, too." And while I resonate deeply with this quote, you can expect me to always supply the respect and compassion you deserve when you decide to share about something grim, yourself.

I strive to be an understanding, gentle, yet direct therapist. There are times when I've found it helpful for clients to hear something new, or to help them hear what others have been saying to them time and time again. My intention, though, is for clients to hear them in new ways. Being direct does not equate to being blunt and rude. You can expect me to follow these moments with a check-in about how you're marinating what you just heard. There are also times where I may draw upon my knowledge of psychology, neuroscience, or something else that I think could be helpful for you to hear. In these moments, I will always ask you for your permission if you're open to learning something new in that moment; I'm not in the business of assuming what a client "needs" to learn, so you're always free to decline when I make an offer!