About Yolanda
Yolanda Fajardo-Vela is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings calm, steady guidance to sessions and emphasizes practical steps people can use between meetings. Her approach aims to help clients notice unhelpful habits and build new ways of coping that fit their life.
Yolanda uses clear, direct conversation to help people find answers they already have. She helps clients identify strengths and set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Work in sessions often includes looking at thoughts that get in the way and practicing new responses to difficult situations. With 15 years of experience, she has supported people dealing with trauma, depression, and grief. She also addresses relationship concerns, parenting strain, anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, guilt and shame, and women’s issues. Her style draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in the person's needs. She also integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to change thinking patterns and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotion regulation and coping skills.
Mindfulness practices are used to help people stay present and reduce overwhelm. Yolanda holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in Texas. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started, then schedule sessions based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's lead. In practice this means sessions center on the client's concerns, values, and goals so the work feels relevant and respectful to each person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns in their thinking that feed anxiety and depression. It uses practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaboration guides which techniques are emphasized as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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