Yong Pak , LCSW

Yong Pak is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Nevada with 15 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, mood disorders, trauma, and life transitions. She combines practical skills and compassionate support to address issues including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, grief, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and LGBT-related matters.

She provides individual, couple, and family therapy, adapting methods to each person or family's unique circumstances. Yong uses a client-centered approach as the foundation of her work, drawing on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy as well as solution-focused strategies and mindfulness practices to create individualized treatment plans. Her goal is to collaborate with clients to identify strengths, set achievable goals, and develop skills that help them realize lasting change.

She holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and brings years of clinical training to her practice. Yong aims to offer respectful guidance and steady support for those ready to address challenges and build stronger relationships, greater resilience, and improved emotional well-being.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Yong Pak integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into her online practice to meet a range of needs. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and tailoring the pace and goals to each person's values, which is helpful for relationship work, self-esteem concerns, and navigating life changes. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, making it effective for anxiety, depression, stress, and some mood-related issues. DBT teaches practical skills for regulating emotions, managing intense feelings, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which supports work on anger, self-control, trauma recovery, and addiction-related challenges.

Finding the right approach is collaborative - Yong works with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the plan reflects the client’s needs and outcomes they hope to achieve.

Online therapy with Yong is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which provides flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limitations, or those who prefer different modes of communication. These options make it easier to maintain momentum between sessions and to access consistent support from licensed professionals without rearranging major parts of daily life.