Dr. Xiaoxia Song earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Ohio University and completed her internship training at the University of Texas at Austin. She has experience working across a variety of clinical settings, including an inpatient psychiatric hospital, community mental health clinics, and a substance use residential program, and has worked with a broad range of presenting concerns including severe mental illness. Dr. Song holds IFS Levels I and II training, as well as Complex Trauma Training Levels I and II. In addition to her work at Banyan, Dr. Song is a staff psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, Counseling and Psychological Services.

Dr. Song's approach to therapy is integrative, drawing primarily from trauma-based, attachment-based, relational, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic, and psychodynamic frameworks. She is particularly interested in complex and developmental trauma. She also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to facilitate slowing down and stepping into the depth of clients' experience to bring about lasting transformation. Dr. Song strives to provide clients a safe space to increase awareness and discover new aspects of themselves. The core of her work is helping people connect with their fragmented parts of self and live more authentically, with purpose and meaning.

Dr. Song also conducts research, with interests in psychotherapy process and outcome, help-seeking behaviors, and the therapist, client, and therapist-patient matching factors that contribute to healing.