About Yonnette
Yonnette Stephen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 17 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress and anxiety and those facing relationship or intimacy-related challenges. She also supports people working on self-esteem, motivation, and confidence.
Depression and mood-related concerns are among the issues she addresses. Her work includes attention to social anxiety and phobia, communication problems, and concerns related to identity and multicultural experiences.
Background and approach
Yonnette believes clients are the experts on their own lives and brings a collaborative spirit to sessions. She listens for strengths and builds on practical steps that fit each person’s everyday life. The first step toward change is often the hardest, and she aims to make that step feel manageable.
Her approach is straightforward and steady. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable actions that reduce stress and improve relationships. She emphasizes real-world skills that people can use between appointments.
Yonnette offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their schedule and needs.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Yonnette uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use day to day. One common approach helps people learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence so anxiety and negative moods lose some of their power. Another approach centers on building practical interpersonal skills - improving communication, setting boundaries, and strengthening intimacy - which helps with relationship strain and confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with her is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from a distance, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and provide multiple ways to stay connected to a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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