About Yolanda
Yolanda Pender is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing anxiety, relationship stress, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Many people come to her when they feel stuck, hurt, or unsure about what to do next.
Yolanda blends conversational therapy with structured tools. She uses approaches that encourage clients to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build clearer communication, stronger self-worth, and calmer responses to stress. With 18 years of clinical experience, she has worked with civilian and military-connected clients in settings that included individual counseling and marriage mentoring. That range has informed a flexible style that fits different personalities and situations.
Her work includes support for blended family issues, divorce and separation concerns, and challenges coming from family of origin patterns. Her methods include cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative techniques, and solution-focused strategies. Those tools are used to tackle problems like anger, infidelity, career transitions, and coping with change.
In sessions she helps people set small goals and track progress between meetings. People who choose Yolanda often want a direct, respectful partner who will listen and offer clear options. She prefers a collaborative process where clients help shape the goals and pacing of therapy.
Her emphasis is on building skills that carry into everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Yolanda commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused techniques in online work. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different, more helpful responses, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily coping. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, concrete steps and measurable goals so clients see progress between sessions.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist and client talk through goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past to decide which methods to try. Adjustments are made as needed so the plan fits the person's life and priorities.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing check-ins, short coaching moments, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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