Therapist profile
Yuki Sugisaki, LMFT
LMFT focused on addiction and family concerns
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- Addiction counseling
- Family conflict
- Parenting stress
About Yuki
Yuki Sugisaki is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing since 2012 in California. She has 14 years of experience and lists work with addiction, severe mental health, and co-occurring disorders among her main concerns. She also helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and family conflict, and parenting stress.
Yuki describes long experience in addiction counseling, including work with people who use substances and with those worried about a loved one’s use. She frames recovery as a process with small steps and speaks plainly about walking out of dark times. Her background includes supporting people through grief, trauma, and intense mood struggles such as bipolar disorder.
Her approach draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how relationships affect feelings and behavior. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to teach practical skills for managing anxiety, panic, and overwhelming emotions. Sessions focus on what a person can do differently day to day rather than abstract theory.
Yuki works with issues that often come up around family life - caregiving stress, abandonment worries, conflict with relatives, and challenges tied to parenting. She also lists specialties including eating and food-related issues, addictions, hoarding, immigration stress, and sexual intimacy concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and Japanese. Interested adults are asked to use the online matching steps to schedule a first appointment and to confirm current session formats before booking.
How sessions work
How attachment and skills work in online sessions
Attachment-Based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and coping. In one or two sessions this approach can help identify patterns people repeat in relationships and what those patterns mean for current stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at the emotions under conflict and helps people name and move through those feelings so communication can change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches specific steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals, and what feels manageable. That may mean combining attachment-focused conversation with CBT or DBT skills practice over several sessions.
The original profile did not list specific online session formats. Please confirm which formats are offered before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy home life, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce the need to travel. Licensed professionals can use a mix of talk-based work and practical skills coaching to help people apply changes in everyday family and parenting situations.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Japanese
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with addiction, depression, anxiety, relationship and family conflict, parenting stress, and related concerns such as grief, trauma, and eating issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches alongside CBT and DBT techniques to address emotions and teach practical coping skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of clinical experience and has been an LMFT since 2012, with additional background in addiction counseling.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is an LMFT licensed in California and lists her practice location as California.
Can I work with her if I don’t speak English?
Sessions are offered in English and Japanese.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not list session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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