About Yvette
Yvette Lanausse, LCSW, supports people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, self-esteem issues, and career questions. Yvette speaks English and Spanish and practices from California.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She listens first to understand what feels most urgent. Then she uses short-term strategies and longer explorations to reduce symptoms and build skills.
Sessions often focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, learning mindfulness tools, and finding small, doable steps forward.
Background and approach
Yvette draws on cognitive behavioral ideas alongside client-centered methods. That means she helps people notice thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and then test more balanced ways of thinking. Mindfulness practices are used to steady emotion and improve focus in daily life.
She also brings psychodynamic and solution-focused perspectives when they fit. Those approaches are useful for spotting repeated patterns across relationships and for setting clear, achievable goals. Yvette pays attention to how medical issues, chronic pain, and caregiving stress shape a person’s daily life.
Yvette earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential in California. She follows professional ethical standards and has three years of clinical experience supporting people through transitions and health-related challenges.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Yvette commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts that worsen anxiety or low mood, then practicing new ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises that help reduce reactivity and manage stress in the moment. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive space. That approach emphasizes listening and reflecting so clients feel understood while they decide what change matters most. Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative - the therapist and client review what helps, adjust goals, and try different techniques until a good fit emerges. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers to not be on camera. Live chat or text sessions suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or clients who prefer typing. These options help people fit sessions into work, caregiving, or medical schedules and support steady progress over time.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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