Mei Yatco, LPC
Populations Served: children (12+), teens, adults, couples, families
Specialties: depression, anxiety, grief, stress management, emotional regulation and anger management, ADD/ADHD, chronic illness & pain, marriage counseling, pre-marital counseling, self harm, cross-cultural challenges, cross-generational family issues, abortion recovery, biblical counseling
Education:
Masters in Counseling (Dallas Theological Seminary)
Masters in Management Information Systems (University of Missouri)
Languages: Mandarin and English
Location: Allen, TX (in person or telehealth)
Insurance: Aetna, Cigna, BCBS(TX, MA)
Self-pay cost: $150 per session
Getting to know Mei 程梅
Mei 程梅 is a bilingual (English & Mandarin Chinese中文) counselor assisting stressed-out, burnt-out, wounded and hurting people to heal and to overcome challenges in life.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas, Mei works with individuals (12+), couples, and families who need help with Anger and other emotional challenges, Anxiety, Depression, ADD/ADHD (teen & adult), Bipolar, and other mental health issues, Chronic Illness/Pain & other somatic/physical condition management, Pre-marital, Marital, Cross-cultural, Cross-generational, and other relational challenges, Work/Career issues, Parenting difficulties, Spiritual challenges and personal growth.
Mei holds a whole-person view and utilizes a holistic approach. She believes every person is fearfully and wonderfully made by God to be whole, and all aspects of a person – biological, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and relational, are interconnected and contribute to the person’s overall wellbeing. Her therapeutic approach is tailored to each individual’s specific situation, needs, and goals. She works diligently with clients through their challenges in a personalized, supportive environment of healing and growth.
Mei obtained an MS in Management Information Systems from University of Missouri - St. Louis and an MA in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary. She is grateful for and loved the rigorous biblical and theological trainings at DTS. Besides her specialties in depression, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, cross-cultural/generational counseling, she is also passionate in providing faith-based counseling, incorporating biblical perspectives and inspiration, helping clients who are dealing with doubts and other spiritual challenges.
More about Mei
Mei was born in Chengdu, a Chinese city with a 9-million population. Raised by her grandmother in Chengdu while her parents worked in the harsh environment of the Tibetan plateaus, she observed first hand the close-knit but badly enmeshed dynamics of families typical in Asian cultures. At a young age, she coped and navigated relational tensions across multiple generations by becoming a people watcher and people pleaser, which she has unlearnt with the help of counseling.
Mei’s previous work experience spans from middle school teacher, inside sales rep, admin assistant, HR manager, to programmer/analyst, but she’d say that her most challenging job is parenting in a dual-culture home. After experiencing the great benefits from counseling during her son’s turbulent adolescence, dealing with the conflicts in her cross-cultural home, her own depression, fibromyalgia, and other chronic health issues, she found her calling in counseling.
程梅出生于成都，因父母在條件惡劣的藏區工作，她由成都的外婆帶大。她從小為了討得身邊親戚的喜歡而學會的察言觀色和她所經歷的一切磨練均被上帝使用,來幫助她在研究探討人性和關係上得到深刻的洞察力。從成都到美國, 她做過英語教師、行政助理、人事部長、電腦程式設計/分析等工作。她豐富的人生經歷教給了她很多學校裡學不到的知識和經驗。她的跨文化婚姻和混血兒子帶來的在溝通技巧和應對衝突的能力上的挑戰，給了她不斷學習和成長的機會。在自己和家人體會了輔導所帶來的益處後，她更渴望用從中學到的來陪伴、幫助他人。於是她回到研究院學習並獲得聖經輔導碩士學位及德州專業輔導執照，來服務有需要的人。她擅長精神/心理疾病(抑鬱症、焦慮症、青少年和成人ADHD等)和跨文化、跨代輔導，也很樂意幫助在靈性、信仰上疑惑、掙扎的人。她致⼒於幫助那些在精神/⼼理、情緒/情感、關係/社交、⾝體及心靈上受困掙扎的⼈在康復過程中找到⼒量、⽬標、扶持和希望。