Our Story & Mission

Where every mind has room to bloom.

Mind & Body Garden Psychology is a team of psychologists, therapists and psychiatrists founded by clinical psychologist Dr. Yishan Xu. We offer therapy, psychological testing and psychiatry, in person and online.

40+: psychologists, therapists and psychiatrists
15: states where our clinicians are licensed
5: offices in California and New York

every mind

Care for whoever you are, wherever you are

Children, teens, adults, couples and families. Clinicians who work in the language you are most at home in and understand the culture you come from, in person in California and New York, and online in 15 states.

Find clinicians by language, state and who they see on Our Team.

A calm therapy room: a sofa with cushions, a framed artwork and an empty wall

Photo · landscape, full cardOne of our therapy rooms, with plenty of empty wall on the left for the words

has room

Room for all of you, mind and body

A calm room, unhurried time, and care that takes sleep, sexual health and the body as seriously as thoughts and feelings. Therapy, psychiatry and psychological testing sit under one roof, so your care is coordinated rather than scattered.

Not the right fit? You can switch clinicians, no explanation needed.

to bloom

Growth, backed by research

Lasting change is grown, not forced. We use treatments tested in clinical research, including CBT, CBT for insomnia, DBT, ACT, EMDR, IFS and the Gottman Method, and fit them to you rather than to a script.

Each clinician’s methods and license are on their profile.

**Dr. Yishan Xu**, PhD, DBSM, CST
Founder and Director

Our Story

“I see the role of a psychologist as a gardener.”

Dr. Yishan Xu grew up in China and practices in both Mandarin and English. She founded Mind & Body Garden to offer the care she believes in: rigorous, evidence-based treatment, with a whole-person approach that takes sleep, stress, relationships and the body as seriously as thoughts and feelings.

People often arrive, as she puts it, with branches of mental blocks and bushes of stress. The work is to help them see what is weighing on their lives, trim it back, and grow toward lives that are healthier and happier. That is the garden in our name.

From its home in Los Altos, the practice has grown into one of California’s largest multilingual mental health clinics, with offices across California and in New York.