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Ready to feel secure and confident in your own skin?

Meet Xuewei “Alex” Li
EMDR and IFS Therapist (She/Her/Hers)

“No one understands me.” | “I feel abnormal and inadequate.” | “I cannot live up to my potential.” | “I am flooded by certain memories and keep reliving them.”

You can thrive and you don’t have to be alone. 

How I Work

I will start with getting to know you, including your needs, your goals, self beliefs and your past. We will set up goals together. We may do three major parts of work, based on your needs:

  1. Stabilization/skill training to help with short term relief and urgent issues. It creates a bandage that allows us to function. You may develop and implement self soothing strategies, interpersonal skills, self care strategies, etc. 
  2. Deep work to find and to resolve the root of the struggles. You will learn more about yourself, see the patterns and understand how certain problems were developed. You will also heal from the root issues, to see long lasting changes. 
  3. Reconnection and integration, to embrace the new you. After getting rid of certain baggage, you may need to develop new strategies and to set up new goals. For example, some of my clients stopped being anxious, and realized their value, so they need the skills for asking for a raise, to open their own company, to start a new healthy relationship, etc. 

There will be laughs because I like jokes; there will be tears when we look at deep wounds; there will be all kinds of emotions, because they are important to experience and witness.

You can just be you on this journey.

I consider therapy a science and an art. There will be times when we are goal-oriented and talk more about science and research; there will be moments when we stay present and experience what life presents us. I was trained in different modalities. That makes it easier to tailor the sessions to your needs.

I will be a witness to see your pain; a coach to teach you new ways to think, feel, and behave; a cheerleader to help you see your strengths. Most importantly, I will be your caring and non-judgmental teammate. 

Specialties

Credentials

Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania

M.Phil.Ed in Professional Counseling
M.S.Ed in Counseling and Mental Health Services
— University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education

Main Modalities

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing/EMDR

Internal Family System/IFS (also ego states, another kind of parts work)

Dialectic Behavioral Therapy/DBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/CBT

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