About Destiny
Destiny York is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and a wide range of life challenges. She emphasizes a practical, person-centered approach that begins with listening and understanding each client's situation. Destiny keeps sessions down-to-earth and goal oriented so people can make steady progress.
She works with adults dealing with trauma, addiction and recovery, depression, relationship struggles, and career or life transitions. Destiny also supports people facing grief, parenting stress, intimacy concerns, and issues around identity including LGBT matters.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to build coping skills and strengthen self-worth. In session she uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered methods and motivational interviewing. That mix helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and stay motivated through change.
Destiny adapts methods to fit what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Over four years of work as an MS LPC and Louisiana LPC have given her experience with complex situations such as co-morbidity, attachment and dissociation concerns, and codependency. She draws on that background when planning concrete next steps with clients.
Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Destiny aims for clear, compassionate guidance that helps people move toward practical change and better coping skills.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to work through identity, grief, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress because it provides practical exercises and clear steps to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills can aid people managing strong emotions, relationship conflicts, or impulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will choose or combine methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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