About Yellda
Yellda McIntosh greets people who are taking the first step toward change with a calm, practical approach. She aims to help clients who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, or life transitions. Her work focuses on helping people feel steadier, more confident, and better connected to the life they want to build.
Yellda has 13 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice and shift unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to what matters most to the client. People often come to her for stress, anxiety, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, or family-related struggles. She also supports individuals dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, communication problems, and related challenges.
Her work addresses both immediate coping skills and longer-term pattern change. In sessions she offers practical tools and gentle feedback. Conversations often include skill building, changing the way someone reacts in hard moments, and practicing new ways of relating to themselves and others.
The pace is set by the person seeking help and their goals. Yellda offers therapy by video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs. She works in English and practices under a Colorado LPC credential.
Her goal is to make therapy usable and clear for people ready to try something that might help.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Yellda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and pattern change. One approach emphasizes building concrete coping skills to manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelm; it helps people handle anxiety, stress, and intense mood shifts by teaching step-by-step strategies they can use in the moment. Another approach targets thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going; work here involves noticing automatic thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavioral changes to create different outcomes.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day life. That means adapting methods over time based on what helps most and checking in regularly about progress and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let sessions feel much like an in-person meeting, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical needs while maintaining a steady path toward the goals set together.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English