Yung-Mei Leong, MD

Yung-Mei Leong is a caring and empathic psychologist licensed in Maryland who holds an MD (Doctor of Medicine). She brings twenty years of varied professional experience and has spent eight years providing psychotherapy, concentrating on practical, skills-based work that helps people manage everyday stressors and clinical concerns.

She specializes in anxiety including obsessive compulsive symptoms, depression, and difficulties with emotional or behavioral regulation that can undermine relationships or career progress. She also supports clients navigating major life changes by offering concrete coping strategies, fostering self-compassion, and helping restore perspective when stress becomes overwhelming. Her practice attends to a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, self-esteem, panic and phobias, obsessions and compulsions, trichotillomania, social anxiety, isolation and loneliness, multicultural issues, midlife challenges, pregnancy and childbirth, hospice and end-of-life counseling, immigration-related stress, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and nontraditional relationship and sexual cultures such as BDSM, kink, polyamory, and other forms of consensual non-monogamy.

She cultivates an open, nonjudgmental environment in which clients can share thoughts and feelings freely. Her clinical approach is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy - identifying and reframing thoughts and beliefs that no longer serve the client - and then applying targeted strategies to build more adaptive patterns. She aims to empower clients to move toward a more authentic and fulfilling life, offering steady support and practical guidance through the often challenging first steps of change.