About Yolanda
Yolanda Patton is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical support for people coping with stress and anxiety. She helps clients facing depression, grief, and major life changes. Her approach emphasizes everyday steps that can reduce worry and improve coping.
Yolanda uses methods that look at how thoughts shape feelings and actions. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new responses.
Background and approach
She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace and Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, achievable goals. Her background includes six years working in settings that address serious illness and end-of-life needs. That experience informs how she talks about chronic pain, caregiving strain, and hospice concerns.
She supports people navigating aging and geriatric issues and young adult transitions. Yolanda holds a Master of Social Work and is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW. She combines practical problem-solving with compassionate listening.
Sessions tend to focus on what feels most urgent and what can change soon. People who come to her can expect clear, direct conversations and tools to try between sessions. She encourages small experiments that build confidence.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that as part of the process.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's lead. Online sessions let the therapist and client build trust at a comfortable pace, with conversations shaped around what matters most that week.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches ways to identify and change thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression. Over video or phone, CBT sessions can include practical exercises and homework that clients use between meetings to test new behaviors.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, achievable steps toward clear goals. This approach works well online because progress can be tracked session to session and adjusted quickly based on what helps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying one method for a few sessions and shifting if something else seems a better fit.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer practical benefits. Video allows face-to-face discussion and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth days, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging helps with short updates or journaling between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or mobility limitations while focusing on consistent progress.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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