About Yolanda
Yolanda Batres-Espinoza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Her work grew from a personal connection to therapy early in life and now focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and related concerns.
She takes a warm, collaborative approach and aims to build a practical plan with each person. Sessions often include talking through current problems, identifying unhelpful patterns, and trying small, manageable steps to feel better.
Background and approach
She affirms LGBTQ people and draws on experience with diverse communities in East Los Angeles. Her background includes training in approaches that look at attachment, thoughts and behaviors, and mindful awareness. Those approaches help with relationship patterns, intrusive worries, and overwhelming emotions.
She also uses motivational techniques to support change and goal-setting. Yolanda has worked in community mental health settings and with people coping with trauma, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions. She lists additional focus areas such as body image, communication problems, and attachment issues.
This range reflects an emphasis on practical coping and rebuilding daily routine. People who prefer a therapist who listens without judgment and helps set concrete steps may find her style a good fit. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to make scheduling easier and to match different needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and change patterns that cause repeated pain or anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining attachment work with CBT skills or using mindfulness practices for stress management depending on what helps most.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a conversation that feels close to an in-person meeting. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions and use short, focused exchanges during a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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