About Yolanda
Yolanda Dunn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She draws on six years of clinical experience to guide clients through emotional pain and practical life challenges. Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
Her sessions focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is often the foundation, with client-centered work to make sure each person feels heard.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and motivational techniques when helpful. Yolanda pays attention to the whole picture of a person’s life. She helps with grief, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, anger, and issues around self-esteem.
She also addresses parenting stress, blended family dynamics, abandonment and attachment questions, and the strain of caregiving or aging issues. Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused. Sessions often include identifying patterns, testing small behavior changes, and practicing new ways to cope.
She aims to build skills clients can use between sessions. Yolanda works with people who want practical steps and a supportive space to work through change. She encourages straightforward conversation and helps clients set realistic goals.
Her style blends empathy with clear, actionable strategies.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead and creates space for honest conversation, which helps when people feel stuck or overwhelmed.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Short mindfulness exercises can be used between sessions to manage strong emotions and build tolerance for difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust methods as they go. That collaborative process helps find what actually helps the client in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact and brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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