About Yvonne
Yvonne Torres is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with more than three decades of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and address addictions. She also supports those facing depression and trauma-related concerns.
Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she speaks English and Spanish. Yvonne keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She listens first, then tailors conversations to each person’s situation.
Background and approach
She works with practical goals like reducing anxiety, improving motivation, and rebuilding confidence. Sessions are shaped around what feels most helpful for the individual. Her background includes long experience in community and clinical settings across varied issues.
That experience informs a calm, steady style when working through difficult topics such as domestic violence, divorce, and immigration stress. She also brings experience supporting caregiver strain, aging and geriatric concerns, and first responder issues. Yvonne pays attention to how problems overlap, such as co-occurring substance use and mood concerns.
She addresses communication and control issues alongside emotional pain like guilt, shame, or abandonment. For end-of-life situations she offers hospice and bereavement support that focuses on practical and emotional needs. Beginning therapy with her involves an honest, down-to-earth process.
She helps people set clear, manageable steps and revisits goals as progress happens. She aims to make change feel possible and realistic.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Yvonne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One approach she often emphasizes is goal-focused talk work that helps identify specific behaviors to change and builds small steps toward lower anxiety and better mood. This approach suits people who want clear strategies to manage stress and daily symptoms.She also uses trauma-informed methods that prioritize safety and pacing when addressing painful memories or abuse. That work often includes skills to manage intense feelings and slow, steady processing of difficult events so the person feels more in control over time.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with each person, weigh their goals and preferences, and adjust methods as needs evolve. Together they decide what techniques feel most useful and practical for day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversations when needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping tools between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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