About &
Dr. & Mrs. Yvette Sabater-Lenk helps people who are feeling anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed.
She writes and speaks plainly, so parents can understand next steps. Her short, steady approach aims to ease daily pressure and restore clearer thinking. She uses practical tools to manage anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem.
Sessions focus on emotion regulation, coping skills, and improving communication. She also addresses trauma and abuse, and problems that come from chronic illness or caregiving stress.
Background and approach
With 30 years of practice as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), she draws on several clinical approaches. These include client-centered methods that follow the person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and techniques for managing strong emotions.
She adapts strategies to each person’s situation, including concerns tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging, autism, or blended family challenges. She can help with commitment or control issues, body image worries, and coping after disasters. Dr.
Sabater-Lenk offers sessions in English and Spanish from Florida. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s goals and priorities. The therapist listens, helps clarify what matters most, and builds sessions around those priorities so progress feels relevant and doable.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to shift thinking patterns and try different behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These tools are useful when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships keep triggering strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try methods that match needs and preferences. Over time, techniques are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face connection, phone works well for lower bandwidth or quick check-ins, and messaging or live chat can help between sessions or for brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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