Qiying Zhou, LCSW

Qiying Zhou, who often goes by Jill, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience providing counseling in New Jersey. She brings a bicultural and bilingual perspective in English and Mandarin that informs her work with individuals and couples facing anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, major life transitions, grief, relationship challenges, trauma, and other emotional and behavioral struggles. Her clinical practice emphasizes understanding each person's cultural background and life context, offering care that reflects familiarity with both language and cultural experience.

Qiying favors a client-centered approach that emphasizes empathy and collaboration, along with cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify and shift unhelpful thinking and patterns. She also integrates emotionally-focused strategies to address relationship and attachment concerns, and draws on existential ideas when clients are wrestling with meaning, loss, or major life decisions. Across these methods, she aims to provide attentive, nonjudgmental listening and practical tools that support coping, resilience, and clearer decision-making.

Her bicultural background has helped her serve people who might otherwise face cultural or language barriers to care. Qiying’s practice spans a wide range of concerns including stress and burnout, parenting and family issues, addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, sleep difficulties, end-of-life and hospice-related counseling, and multicultural or discrimination-related distress.