Dr. Xiaoxia Song earned her doctorate from the clinical psychology at Ohio University. She received her internship training at the University of Texas at Austin. She had experiences working with a variety of clinical settings, including an inpatient psychiatric hospital, community mental health clinics, substance use residential program. She has experiences working with a broad range of presenting concerns, including severe mental illness. Dr. Song received the IFS-I & II training, and complex trauma training level I & II certificates. In addition to her work at Banyan, Dr. Song is a staff psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, Counseling and Psychological Services.

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Dr. Song’s approach to therapy is integrative, but mostly trauma-based, attachment-based, relational, Internal Family System (IFS), relational, somatic, and psychodynamic. Particularly, Dr. Song is interested in complex trauma/developmental trauma. In addition, she pulls from other modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, to facilitate slowing down, stepping into the depth of clients’ experience to heal and bringing about lasting transformation. Dr. Song strives to provide clients a safe space to increase awareness, discover new aspects of themselves. The core of her work is in helping people connect with their fragmented parts of self and live more authentically and with purpose and meaning.

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​Dr. Song also spends some of her time doing research. Her research interests focus on psychotherapy process and outcome, and help-seeking behaviors etc. She studies factors such as therapist factors, clients’ factors, and therapist-patient matching factors that contribute to the healing process.