Yuki Sugisaki

Yuki Sugisaki is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings 14 years of clinical experience and speaks English and Japanese. Yuki describes therapy as a partnership and aims to help people find clearer steps forward when life feels stuck.

She often works with people facing addiction and co-occurring concerns. That background includes helping people who are dealing with substance use alongside depression, anxiety, or severe mental health challenges. Yuki also supports those who are affected by a loved one’s addiction, offering guidance on how to respond and where to begin.

Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on understanding what’s happening now, naming patterns, and finding small, usable changes that add up. She uses relational ideas and skills-based work to strengthen emotional connection and manage intense feelings.

Yuki has experience with a wide range of concerns beyond addiction, including eating and food-related issues, trauma and abuse, grief, panic, obsessive and compulsive behaviors, and caregiver stress. She also helps people with life transitions, career stress, and challenges with intimacy and relationships.

People who prefer a collaborative, compassionate therapist may find her style helpful. She invites straightforward conversation and clear next steps rather than long, abstract explanations. To begin, clients follow the site process to match and schedule with her.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how current relationships and early bonds affect how a person feels and connects today. It can help with relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, and improving emotional closeness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing small changes that reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive symptoms. It is often used for mood, panic, and obsessive thoughts.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then recommend a combination of methods. That choice is collaborative and can change over time based on what helps.

Practical benefits of online work include easier fitting of sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time so people can attend more consistently. Online therapy can make it simpler to check in shorter and more often when needed, or to use audio-only or video depending on what the client prefers. Session formats for this therapist are not listed here, so please confirm available options before booking.