About Siyue
Siyue Zhang is an AASW counsellor with five years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Siyue is warm and straightforward in sessions and encourages small, practical steps toward change.
People come to Siyue for many concerns, including relationship strain, grief, addiction, trauma and mood issues. She also works with challenges like parenting strain, work stress, sleep and eating difficulties, and navigating life changes.
Background and approach
Her practice takes a broad view of how emotions, relationships and the body connect. Siyue draws on somatic ideas alongside evidence-based talking therapies to help people notice physical patterns linked to distress. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed approaches to help clients clarify values and repair difficult relational patterns.
Cognitive techniques are used when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. In a typical session Siyue listens closely, reflects what she hears and offers simple tools to test between sessions. She helps clients set small goals that fit their daily lives.
Sessions are paced to each person’s comfort and readiness. Siyue speaks English and Mandarin and practices in Australia. She invites people to take the first step and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin arranging sessions.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Siyue combines somatic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice how stress shows up in their bodies and then choose meaningful actions. Somatic-informed work asks clients to pay attention to bodily sensations and breathing, which can help with anxiety, trauma-related tension and stress management. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, value-driven steps even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present.She also uses attachment-informed approaches to look at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feeling safe and connected. Attachment work helps people understand recurring relationship reactions and build new ways of relating. Finding the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options and tailor techniques to each person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, practice tools between meetings and reconnect from home or work. Siyue uses these options to meet practical needs while working through emotional, relational and body-focused goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin