About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience in the mental health field. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, approachable manner. Yvette often uses humor to help people feel at ease and encourages clients as they begin their work together.
She has worked in nonprofit settings focusing on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and general mental health care. Her background includes work with depression, bipolar concerns, personality-related issues, complex trauma and abuse, prenatal and postpartum depression, and anxiety.
Background and approach
She also has experience with immigration and acculturation concerns and intellectual or developmental disabilities. Yvette emphasizes meeting people where they are. Sessions tend to be conversational and practical.
She aims to be an advocate and a support, and she notices and celebrates progress both large and small. Her approach draws on several evidence-based ideas, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, attachment-informed work, and client-centered methods. She adapts these methods to each person's needs and pace.
Yvette speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. She encourages regular self-care and often builds simple, realistic self-care steps into goals. She enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and watching novelas, and she can relate to many bicultural experiences.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take values-based actions. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It often includes practical exercises and short at-home tasks.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. They will try methods collaboratively and adjust the plan as needed to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to continue care during relocations or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish, American Sign Language
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