About Yvonne
Yvonne Heim is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 18 years of counseling experience. She holds graduate degrees in psychology and human services, and she focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and depression. Yvonne emphasizes listening first and building a working relationship where clients feel heard and understood.
She keeps sessions practical and straightforward. Yvonne uses client-centered methods to make space for each person's story.
Background and approach
She also draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and DBT strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Yvonne works with people facing life transitions, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and struggles with self-esteem and anger. She also assists those dealing with trauma, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and various forms of addiction.
Her additional focus areas include communication problems, codependency, and isolation and loneliness. In sessions she encourages open questions and honest sharing. People can expect to talk through current problems, set concrete goals, and practice skills that fit daily life.
Yvonne aims for sessions where the client leaves with something useful to try before the next meeting. Her style is warm and direct. Yvonne draws on mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help clients notice what works and build on small successes.
She supports people who want to reduce symptoms, regain control, or learn new ways to handle stress and anxiety.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Yvonne commonly blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered work focuses on listening and making the client feel heard so goals can be set together; this helps people who need support sorting thoughts and feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts affect mood and behavior and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking, which is useful for anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy adds practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal communication to help with intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods feel most useful and which skills should be practiced between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for a full conversation and skill practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum while working on stress, anxiety, addiction, or life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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