Yung-Mei Leong, MD

Yung-Mei Leong, MD, is a Maryland-licensed psychologist with eight years of experience providing psychotherapy. She combines empathic listening with practical, skills-based work to support people facing anxiety, depression, and difficulties with emotional or behavioral regulation that interfere with relationships or career goals. Her clinical focus includes obsessive compulsive symptoms, panic and phobic concerns, attention differences, and the kinds of stressors that accompany major life transitions.

Leong offers concrete coping strategies alongside gentle guidance in self-compassion and perspective-taking to help clients navigate change, reduce distress, and rebuild confidence. She also brings experience addressing diverse life issues such as relationship structures, divorce and separation, grief and end-of-life concerns, immigration-related stress, and challenges tied to sexuality and alternative relationship styles.

Her work is grounded in cognitive behavioral methods - an evidence-based approach that identifies unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and then develops practical strategies to shift patterns of thinking and behavior. That focus on targeted skills helps clients make measurable progress toward more fulfilling, authentic lives. Leong aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space and to support each person as they take the often-difficult first steps toward change.