Lillian Tsai

Lillian Tsai, LCSW, brings two decades of clinical practice to her work with people encountering stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Based in New York, she has worked across multiple settings, including child welfare agencies, victim treatment centers, and hospitals, and has supported children, adolescents, and adults through a range of challenges such as depression, relationship strain, domestic violence, and coping with serious illness.

Lillian integrates client-centered principles with targeted therapeutic methods to build on each person’s strengths. Her approach emphasizes collaboration: she and the person in care shape treatment goals together and select interventions that match the individual’s needs and preferences. Clinical methods she uses include cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused work, solution-focused strategies, existential exploration, and trauma-focused practices.

She is comfortable working on issues related to caregiving, aging, abandonment, codependency, and loss, as well as topics affecting sexual and gender minorities. Lillian offers services in English and Mandarin and frames therapy as a cooperative process to explore meaning, manage symptoms, and address patterns that interfere with daily functioning.