About Yvonne
Yvonne Schlueter-Promes uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) with over three decades of experience. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at making therapy useful and easy to follow.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based work, and a client-centered stance. Sessions focus on learning skills for day-to-day coping, clarifying values, and building better patterns in relationships and behavior.
Background and approach
Yvonne emphasizes simple, manageable steps rather than long lectures. Her background includes work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, attention challenges like ADHD, grief, addiction-related concerns, and problems with sleep and eating. She also supports people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions.
The breadth of her experience gives her practical ideas to try when a single approach feels stuck. Yvonne aims to be open minded and nonjudgmental in sessions. She helps people set clear goals and practices skills together so clients can use them outside therapy.
Her goal is to help people strengthen coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning. Clients usually find the work focused on real life problems and realistic goals. Yvonne encourages steady progress, checking in about what helps and what needs adjusting.
Her long experience in Nebraska informs a calm, grounded approach to common struggles like anxiety, stress, and relationship difficulties.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing alternatives in daily life, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and supports building healthier ways to connect and regulate emotions.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Yvonne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try approaches and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and practical for the client's life.
Online therapy offers flexibility with multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and emotional work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, share short updates, or use brief coaching-style support on a tighter schedule. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel demands while using the same therapeutic methods practiced in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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