Wendy Lang is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose professional record centers on children, families, and the social and emotional needs of gifted and twice-exceptional clients. She founded and directs Beverly Hills Child and Family Counseling, where her work includes individual therapy, parent support, and programs for young people.
Her path into this specialty developed gradually. Before private practice, she worked as a children’s social worker, and her later clinical experience led her toward additional training focused on gifted and 2e families.
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Profession | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist |
| Practice | Beverly Hills Child and Family Counseling |
| Role | Founder and director |
| Education | Graduate study at the University of Southern California |
| Earlier work | Children’s social worker with the Department of Children and Family Services |
| Professional focus | Children, families, gifted and twice-exceptional clients |
| Languages | English and Mandarin |
Her Work With Children Began Before Private Practice
Lang completed her graduate study at the University of Southern California in 2004. A USC Rossier alumni record later documented that she had spent five years working for the Department of Children and Family Services as a children’s social worker.
That work came before her private-practice phase. By 2014, USC reported that she had been seeing clients privately for about a decade, with offices in Monterey Park and Beverly Hills at the time.
She later founded and directed Beverly Hills Child and Family Counseling. Her professional focus includes children and families dealing with learning difficulties, emotional concerns, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, family conflict, divorce, custody issues, and major changes at home.
Her public professional record centers on counseling, including children’s social work, private practice, and her later focus on gifted and twice-exceptional families.
Play and Art Help Shape Her Work With Younger Clients
Lang’s approach to younger clients includes play- and art-based techniques. In her professional profile, she explains that children do not always describe emotional difficulties as directly as adults can. Distress may instead appear through behavior.
Play and art can therefore provide another way for children to express thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to put into words. Her practice materials also describe these methods as tools for helping younger clients recognize and communicate emotions.
Her current professional profile distinguishes between age groups when deciding how she delivers sessions. She states that she sees children in person, while teenagers may use a combination of in-person and online sessions. Adults have greater flexibility between the two formats.
This age-specific approach sits within a broader practice that works not only with individual children but also with parents and families facing emotional, behavioral, and relationship challenges.
Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Families Became a Major Focus
Gifted and twice-exceptional clients eventually became a significant part of Lang’s work. Her professional biography says that she became increasingly interested in this area after noticing that many children in her practice fit gifted or 2e profiles.
Lang’s professional materials specifically identify gifted and twice-exceptional children, teens, and adults among her areas of focus.
Her interest also had a personal dimension. Material published by her counseling practice states that her son was identified as a twice-exceptional learner. That experience, combined with the number of gifted clients she was seeing professionally, contributed to her decision to study the subject more closely.
She attended SENG conferences and training workshops and became a SENG Model Parent Group facilitator. Her work in this area therefore grew from both clinical experience and additional specialized training, rather than being the sole focus of her career from the beginning.
Parent Groups Extend Her Work Beyond Individual Therapy
Lang’s work with gifted and 2e families has included structured parent groups and individual counseling. Her practice has offered SENG Model Parent Groups designed to help parents better understand challenges that can accompany giftedness and twice-exceptionality.
Topics covered in those groups include communication, motivation, perfectionism, stress, emotional well-being, ADHD, and learning differences. The format gives parents a setting to discuss concerns that can arise when a child’s high abilities exist alongside social, emotional, or learning needs.
Her public professional work has also included educational events. On May 11, 2021, she participated in a Parenting the Gifted Forum aimed at Asian American parents of gifted and high-achieving children. The event addressed gifted traits, parenting challenges, motivation, achievement, social-emotional learning, and available resources.
Lang has also been associated with GirlTalk therapy groups for teenagers. Those programs have focused on emotional regulation, resilience, self-worth, friendship, identity, and social connection.
These activities broaden her documented work beyond standard one-to-one therapy and show a continuing emphasis on helping families understand the emotional and social sides of childhood and adolescence.
Her Practice Remains Active in 2026
As of September 2026, Wendy Lang remained listed as an LMFT and the founder and director of Beverly Hills Child and Family Counseling. Her verified Psychology Today profile also remained active and continued to identify gifted and twice-exceptional clients among her main professional specialties.
Her current profile lists both online and in-person counseling, with formats that vary by client age. Beverly Hills Child and Family Counseling also continues to publicly present services for children, teenagers, young adults, couples, and families.
Her current work brings together therapy for younger clients, support for parents, and specialized services for gifted and twice-exceptional families.