Jisu Pyo, LAPC

Jisu Pyo (she/her) is a Korean-American therapist in Pennsylvania who specializes in supporting clients navigating anxiety, depression, emotional challenges, identity concerns, relationships, and major life transitions.

If you’ve been searching for a teen therapist near me, Jisu supports teenagers facing academic, emotional, or social challenges. She has experience supporting adolescents, emergent adults, and families from multicultural backgrounds in high school and outpatient settings, and she understands how layered identity, school pressure, and family expectations can feel for young people.

Jisu is passionate about breaking down mental health stigma when providing therapy for Asian-Americans and People of Color. She specializes in therapy for anxiety, depression, difficulty managing emotions and moods, stress, grief and loss, self-esteem and identity concerns, relationship and family challenges, academic, career, and life transitions, and first-generation and bicultural experiences. She works with women and also offers therapy for men.

As a Korean-American therapist, Jisu understands the challenges of navigating cultural identity, intergenerational expectations, and finding a sense of belonging. Her lived experience as an immigrant to the United States as a child informs her deep commitment to supporting Black and Asian-American communities as they explore identity, self-worth, and the balance between cultures.

Jisu is fluent in both Korean and English. While she primarily provides counseling in English, she welcomes clients who may feel more comfortable expressing certain thoughts or emotions in Korean.

Jisu believes therapy can be a powerful space for healing, growth, and self-discovery. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed and multicultural approaches, which she tailors to meet the needs of each unique client. She also integrates mindfulness-based practices and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in a warm, non-judgmental, and compassionate way. This allows clients who work with her to feel seen, validated, and empowered to heal and grow at their own pace.

Jisu earned her Master of Science in Community and Trauma Counseling from Thomas Jefferson University, where she focused on working with diverse and underserved communities. Jisu is supervised by Nicola Pierre-Smith, LPC.

Jisu offers in-person appointments on Saturdays and virtual therapy throughout Pennsylvania on weekday evenings. She also has immediate income-based sliding scale availability: if your annual income is below $45,000 and she is not in-network with your insurance, the sliding scale rate for each individual therapy appointment is $95. If you’re ready to connect with a teen therapist near you, schedule a consultation with Jisu today.