- Bicultural perspective
- Values-based support
- Practical coping tools
About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years in the mental health field. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Yvette encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy and helps them settle in quickly. She speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language and practices from Illinois.
Yvette aims to be an advocate and a steady support while clients work through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and trauma. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, intimacy problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to aging and caregiver stress, adoption and attachment concerns, and coping with life changes and disasters.
Her approach blends several practical methods. She uses client-centered listening to hear what matters most. Cognitive behavioral tools help reshape unhelpful thoughts and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques support values-based choices, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy teach emotion regulation skills.
Yvette has experience in community and nonprofit settings addressing addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and prenatal and postpartum depression. She has worked with people facing bipolar and personality disorders, co-occurring conditions, developmental differences, and immigration or acculturation stress.
Outside of therapy she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking and photography. She prompts clients to build small, regular self-care habits and celebrates progress along the way. To begin, she asks people to complete the site's matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
Yvette aims to be an advocate and a steady support while clients work through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and trauma. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, intimacy problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to aging and caregiver stress, adoption and attachment concerns, and coping with life changes and disasters.
Her approach blends several practical methods. She uses client-centered listening to hear what matters most. Cognitive behavioral tools help reshape unhelpful thoughts and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques support values-based choices, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy teach emotion regulation skills.
Yvette has experience in community and nonprofit settings addressing addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and prenatal and postpartum depression. She has worked with people facing bipolar and personality disorders, co-occurring conditions, developmental differences, and immigration or acculturation stress.
Outside of therapy she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking and photography. She prompts clients to build small, regular self-care habits and celebrates progress along the way. To begin, she asks people to complete the site's matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue
Additional focus areas
AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHearing impairedHIV / AIDSHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy
Experience
18+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English, Spanish, American Sign Language
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Yvette draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, purposeful steps toward those values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes because it focuses on living despite difficult thoughts and feelings.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. That approach can help with intimacy problems, abandonment concerns, and family conflict by identifying relational expectations and building new ways of connecting.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Yvette will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day reality. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
If you prefer online sessions, please confirm available formats before booking since the therapist's original profile does not list specific session types. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, save commuting time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce the need to be on camera for every meeting. These practical benefits often help people keep therapy consistent alongside work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, trauma and complex abuse. She also assists with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and career-related stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Yvette uses a warm, client-centered style and mixes practical tools like cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based and emotion regulation strategies. Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused on everyday steps.
What is her professional background?
She has 18 years of experience working in mental health, including nonprofit settings focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, and family reunification.
What credentials and region are associated with this therapist?
She holds the LCPC credential as an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and practices in Illinois.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Can international clients work with her?
She accepts international clients, so people outside the U.S. can inquire about working together.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.