About Yolanda
Yolanda Aguinaga is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 32 years of experience helping people face stress and anxiety. She practices in Pennsylvania and speaks both English and Spanish. Her style is warm and practical, and she aims to help people take small, steady steps toward feeling better.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into therapy. Sessions focus on real problems and practical skills rather than labels.
Background and approach
Yolanda frames change as a series of doable moves, and she supports people through setbacks and progress alike. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including addictions, grief and loss, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people with eating and sleeping struggles, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges.
Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and coping with major life changes. Yolanda uses a mix of approaches that match each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance-oriented strategies, cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused techniques, and skills for managing intense feelings.
Therapy sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the individual. People who prefer a straightforward, empathetic counselor tend to find her approach helpful. She works with English and Spanish speakers, and she offers online formats that can fit different schedules.
To begin, clients follow the platform’s matching steps and schedule a first session.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance get in the way of day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It is useful for practical problem solving and changing responses to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest methods to try. Sessions are collaborative, and adjustments are made over time so the plan fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy makes it easier to keep continuity and fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging help with brief reflections, on-the-go support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options provide flexibility for scheduling and different communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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