About Yellda
Yellda McIntosh is a licensed professional counselor with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or trauma. Her manner is calm and direct, aiming to help clients feel steadier and more confident in everyday life.
She uses practical tools to help people notice unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Sessions often include learning new coping skills and practicing them between meetings. The work is collaborative - clients and Yellda set goals together and track small changes over time.
Background and approach
Yellda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address worries, mood struggles, and past hurt. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, attachment concerns, body image, chronic health challenges, and caregiver stress. The approach is tailored to each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
In session she prioritizes clear skills and steady pacing. People leave with concrete strategies they can use during stressful moments. She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
Yellda practices in Colorado and conducts work in English. She blends skill building with exploration of personal history so clients can both manage current symptoms and build longer-term resilience.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Yellda commonly uses Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills and other evidence-based techniques to help people manage strong emotions and reduce anxious thinking. DBT skills teach practical ways to handle stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships, which can help during intense or overwhelming moments.She also uses approaches that target unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression. These methods involve noticing thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, then building alternative ways of coping that fit each person's daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist works with each person to identify goals and tries different strategies until a good fit is found. This collaborative process helps shape the plan and adapts as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and for how people prefer to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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