About Yvette
Yvette Fort is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with trauma and abuse, and build self-esteem. Her approach aims to meet each person where they are and move toward clearer goals.
Yvette works with adults facing life transitions and career challenges. She also helps people who struggle with panic attacks, feelings of isolation, guilt, shame, and workplace difficulties.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical strategies that can be used between meetings. She frames therapy as a collaborative process. Conversations are shaped around the client’s immediate needs and long-term aims.
Treatment plans are adjusted as progress and priorities change. Yvette describes her style as respectful and compassionate. She focuses on empowering people to make changes that feel sustainable.
Simple tools, steady feedback, and goal-oriented steps are part of how she helps clients move forward. People who choose Yvette can expect focused work on coping skills, clearer communication, and building confidence. She encourages small, measurable steps and checks in on how those changes are going.
Her goal is to support people toward a more fulfilling and manageable everyday life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Yvette draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and change. One common approach she uses emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and panic - it teaches breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance and panic symptoms. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse in manageable steps, helping a person name painful memories, reduce their hold on daily life, and build safer routines. These methods help with stress, panic attacks, self-esteem, and workplace strain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the client wants to focus on.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face interaction for full sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.
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Also listed
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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