Mizuka Yasuoka

Mizuka Yasuoka, LPC, is a Michigan-licensed clinician with five years of professional experience supporting people through relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, depression, and major life transitions. Her work also addresses compassion fatigue and a wide set of related concerns, including attachment and abandonment, body image, codependency, and post-traumatic stress. She approaches each referral as an opportunity to collaborate around the specific challenges named by the person seeking help.

Yasuoka emphasizes the strengths a person brings to their story and centers their perspective when planning care. She draws from Client-Centered Therapy to create space for exploration, and she integrates targeted methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate for symptoms or histories that call for skills training or trauma-focused attention.

She frames the work as a process of empowerment and shared effort. Yasuoka invites those who are ready to take a first step toward change to consider whether a supportive, structured approach to relationships, mood, and coping fits their needs, while noting that practical details like scheduling and session options are handled up front to ease the start of therapy.