About Yolanda
Yolanda Orta Swope is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 11 years of clinical experience. She sees adults who are dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, and related concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in Texas.
She notices how individual struggles often show up inside relationships. Many clients first bring worries about mood or panic and then discover these issues affect partners, children, parents, or coworkers. She helps people name what is happening and how it connects to the people in their lives.
Background and approach
Her work mixes talking through feelings with practical skill building. Sessions include processing emotions, noticing behavioral patterns, and learning new ways to respond under stress. She also teaches communication and coping strategies that people can try between meetings.
Yolanda uses structured approaches to break down problems into manageable steps. She guides people toward short-term goals while also addressing deeper patterns that underlie recurring struggles. The focus is on what the client wants to change and realistic steps to get there.
She offers a calm, direct style that aims to make therapy useful and understandable. New clients are asked about their goals and past experiences so sessions can be tailored to their needs. The emphasis is on practical progress that fits everyday life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Yolanda often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical work that targets anxiety, depression, panic, and stress with specific exercises and homework.She also employs Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship patterns are a central concern. EFT focuses on understanding emotional responses between people and improving connection and communication in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That decision is reviewed and adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for shorter updates, coaching-style prompts, or when messaging fits a daily routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish