Scott Yi(He/Him/His)

Scott Yi is a clinical social worker in Princeton, NJ. He has been working in the mental health field since the year 2000, helping young people and their families make meaningful changes to their lives.

Scott has experience working in an out-of-district school/treatment program, as a middle school therapist, as a psychiatric screener in a psychiatric emergency room, as a residential counselor, as a psychiatric inpatient counselor for adults, adolescents, and children, as an in-home therapist for adolescents and children, and an outpatient therapist for adults. The myriad experiences Scott has gathered in the past 23 years helps him quickly gain deep understanding and insight into your mental health struggles.

Drawing on the rich experiences of his career, Scott can recognize the true issues and help you remove the barriers that have been holding you back from realizing your full potential by utilizing cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, and interpersonal approaches. Scott sees the treatment process as a collaborative journey where you work together to improve your quality of life.

Scott likes to keep sessions light-hearted and incorporate as much humor as possible with the main focus on building the client-therapist relationship because the hard issues often manage to show up in sessions all on their own. Scott can use your relationship with him to help you gain insight into those issues, then work with you to develop a new perspective and approach to managing them so you can better achieve your personal goals.

Scott loves to meet with his clients in person but offers virtual sessions for his clients’ convenience as necessary.