About Yasmin
Dr. Yasmin Lluveras is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She works with concerns like depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and career-related stress.
She also supports people navigating LGBT matters, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats clients as the expert on their own lives and focuses on clear, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with room for reflection and problem solving. Dr. Lluveras uses approaches that aim to reduce distress and build skills people can use day to day.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses solution-focused methods to identify small changes that lead to progress. For people who have been through difficult events, she brings trauma-focused work that attends to safety and pacing.
That work moves at a pace set by the client and focuses on coping tools and emotional stabilization. Based in California, she has decades of experience across a wide range of life challenges. She emphasizes practical strategies that fit into busy lives and helps clients weigh choices about change.
Many people come to her seeking clearer ways to manage anxiety and regain a sense of control. Initial steps are simple: choose a session format that fits the day and begin with a short plan for goals and next steps. Her approach aims to make therapy feel useful and doable while acknowledging the realities people bring into sessions.
Approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against reality. It focuses on small, practical experiments and behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on what a person wants to see changed and the next small steps toward that goal. It is useful for people who want quick, concrete strategies and a short-term focus on progress.
Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to safety and pacing for people recovering from difficult events. It emphasizes stabilization skills and gradual work on memories or triggers when the client is ready.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Clients are invited to shape the plan and to adjust techniques as they learn what helps.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, frequent brief contacts, and different ways to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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