About Yonna
Yonna Swingholm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices from California. Her background combines long-term clinical work with practical tools clients can use between sessions.
She prefers an integrative, down-to-earth approach that focuses on the relationship. Sessions begin by clarifying the concerns and goals the person brings. From that starting point she matches methods that fit the individual rather than forcing a single method on everyone.
Background and approach
Yonna uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people identify patterns of thought and behavior that fuel anxiety and stress. She draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation grounded in the person’s priorities and strengths. She also incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing when those styles suit the goals at hand.
Her experience includes work with military and special operations communities and with Native tribes across North America. She is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor and has taught on integrating holistic treatment into healthcare settings. People seeking help for anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, or life transitions will find an approach that emphasizes clear goals and practical steps.
Yonna aims to help people build coping skills, clarify values, and make steady progress toward their priorities.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the person’s lead to set goals and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and guides practical goal-setting for issues like anxiety or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice new responses. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, depression, and coping with stress because it gives concrete tools to use between sessions.
Mindfulness-based work teaches simple awareness and grounding practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices pair well with other methods when someone wants skills to calm the body and attention.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select and try methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and a therapy-like conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style exchanges, and ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapeutic methods described above.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington, California
- Languages
- English
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