About Yolanda
Yolanda Pender is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, and stress. She works with people dealing with anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, career changes, and major life transitions. Her style is direct and collaborative, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Yolanda uses clear conversation to identify patterns that cause pain. She helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and then practices different ways to respond.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, repairing trust after infidelity, and navigating separation or divorce when needed. Her background includes 18 years of counseling experience in varied settings. She has worked with people connected to the military and civilian communities, and has supported those facing grief and trauma.
That experience informs how she guides clients through relationship and family-related concerns. In sessions she mixes goal-focused methods with storytelling work to help people reframe experiences. Techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and solution-focused work are used alongside motivational interviewing and narrative therapy.
The emphasis is on what clients want to change and short-term strategies to move toward those goals. People who choose her can expect a practical partnership. She helps clients set clear objectives, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
The aim is steady improvement in day-to-day life and greater confidence handling future challenges.
How practical therapy methods work online
Yolanda uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on small changes in thinking and action that often reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help with relationship patterns. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to clarify what a person truly wants and to build their motivation for change; it works well when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps.Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face to face when that matters. Phone can be easier when less bandwidth is needed. Chat or messaging is useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it possible to keep regular contact and practice new skills between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English