Hai Nguyen
Compassionate family and relationship therapy
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
- Format
- Online sessions
About Hai
Hai Nguyen is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship, addiction, mood, and trauma-related issues. He speaks English and Vietnamese and brings 15 years of clinical experience in California settings. He uses clear, direct conversation to help parents and partners understand patterns and find workable changes.
Sessions are practical and grounded in everyday steps that families can try between meetings. Hai draws on experience in dual diagnosis treatment, addiction programs, and school-based therapy to shape his approach.
Background and approach
He has worked with teens, couples, and families in settings that included middle and high schools and residential treatment. That background informs his work with parenting, behavior concerns, and family strain. Therapy with Hai often begins by mapping what is happening now and what the family wants to be different.
He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values. He also relies on attachment-based ideas to help repair closeness and improve communication. Sessions aim to reduce conflict, manage stress, and rebuild connection.
Hai pays attention to cultural context and the pressures families face during adaptation and acculturation. He also draws on experience with addiction, domestic violence, grief, and mood disorders when those issues affect family life. Outside clinical work he has taught psychology and health subjects online and served in leadership roles at treatment programs.
That mix of teaching and clinical roles supports a practical, educational style in therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life
Hai uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help families notice unhelpful thoughts and change behavior. CBT gives clear strategies for managing anxiety, mood issues, and problematic habits that affect family routines.He also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on values and making small changes that match what matters most. ACT can help parents and partners tolerate hard feelings while still acting in ways that support relationships and family goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Hai will talk with families about goals, try different tools, and adapt methods that feel useful. He aims to work with each family’s values and daily realities rather than forcing a single model.
Online sessions are offered by video calls and phone, as well as live chat and text-based messaging. These options let parents fit therapy around work, school, and caregiving schedules. The range of formats also makes it easier to keep momentum between meetings and use shorter check-ins when useful.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
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