About Yolanda
Yolanda Orta Swope is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 11 years of practice. She focuses on helping adults who are dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, and the ways these struggles affect everyday life and relationships. Yolanda listens for how a person’s past and present experiences shape current feelings and behavior.
She helps people sort out their own reactions and also look at how those reactions affect partners, children, parents, and work.
Background and approach
Sessions balance individual processing with practical skill building. Her approach often includes clear tools for coping with panic, stress, and mood changes. Yolanda works on concrete skills such as recognizing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new ways to respond, and communicating more effectively with others.
She keeps language plain and steps small so progress feels manageable. Many people come for worry or changes in mood and discover patterns in their relationships that matter. Yolanda helps clients name those patterns and tries out different ways to respond.
She also addresses related concerns like grief, addictions, workplace strain, and parenting pressures. She offers services in English and Spanish and draws on methods that help people make real-life changes. Sessions can mix short-term problem solving and longer conversations about life events.
The goal is clearer coping, better day-to-day functioning, and improved interaction with the people who matter most.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Yolanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and name emotions, then practice different ways of connecting and responding in close relationships to improve safety and trust.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy when the goal is short-term problem solving and practical change. That approach centers on small, achievable steps and clear goals to get quicker relief from a specific problem such as panic attacks or work stress. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Yolanda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which approaches to try first.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when video is not possible, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on goals from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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