About Ngnoron
Ngnoron Yapo is a licensed mental health counselor who has three years of clinical experience. She works from Iowa and focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns. She centers each session on the person in front of her and their strengths.
Yapo approaches therapy as a collaborative process. She listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of responding. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-minded, with time spent on skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She has supported people dealing with low self-esteem, depression, anger, and substance concerns. Ngnoron also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, family conflict, parenting strain, grief, and career challenges. She works with concerns that include ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with major life changes.
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, and she pays attention to how attachment and abandonment experiences shape current reactions. She also helps with body image, codependency, communication problems, and separation or divorce adjustments. People can expect straightforward conversation, practical coping strategies, and steady support while trying new habits.
She emphasizes the client's knowledge of their own life and builds on existing strengths to move forward.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based talk and skills work form the core of this therapist's online practice. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and anger. These techniques focus on breathing, grounding, and behavior changes people can practice between sessions. Another useful approach is trauma-informed care which looks at how past hurt affects current reactions and helps people build safety and new ways of relating to memories and triggers.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, life situation, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit real life. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and do longer check-ins. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and staying connected between full sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can work around work, family, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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