About Yolanda
Yolanda Aguinaga is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 32 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and works with clients who want steady, practical support.
Yolanda approaches therapy with respect for each person's story. She believes people are the experts on their own lives and builds on their strengths. Sessions are meant to feel like a collaborative conversation rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses clear, workable strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She draws on methods that help with thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and finding what matters to each person. The goal is to create steps clients can use between meetings.
She also helps with specific challenges such as ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and coping after a loss or big change. Yolanda addresses practical problems like sleep, eating, anger, and career strain, and she supports people facing trauma or abuse. Clients can expect a calm, patient presence and an emphasis on small, realistic changes.
Yolanda aims to support people as they make choices that lead to more satisfying days and steadier emotional balance.
Approach and access: proven methods delivered online
Yolanda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on changing patterns that maintain anxiety, low mood, or addictive behavior.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take steps toward a meaningful life even when unpleasant thoughts and feelings are present. That approach can help with grief, stress, and ongoing emotional pain.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods that match the client's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish