About Yvonne
Yvonne Copeland, LICSW, focuses on helping adults who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. She understands how hard it can be to ask for help and offers a steady, calm presence as people take that step. Her style is open and nonjudgmental, aimed at making the first visit feel manageable for someone worried or nervous.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are included to teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and build awareness in everyday moments. She also draws on solution-focused and client-centered methods to build on what already works for each person. Over a 15-year career she has supported people with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and caregiving strain among other issues.
Her work includes support around life transitions, career setbacks, addictions, and chronic illness. She brings practical tools and a strengths-based perspective to those situations. Sessions begin with a focused conversation about why someone is seeking help and what matters most to them.
She asks about the important people and circumstances in a client’s life and uses that information to shape straightforward goals and steps. The approach is collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. Yvonne practices in Alabama and speaks English.
She offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and can guide people toward options that fit their daily life and schedule.
Approaches That Fit Your Life Online
Yvonne commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change patterns that get in the way of goals. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple, practical practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus in daily moments, which can help with sleep, worry, and emotional ups and downs.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they decide which method or mix of methods to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or want ongoing, brief touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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