About Yulando
Yulando Thornton is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Georgia with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, substance use concerns, and workplace difficulties. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aiming to make therapy feel manageable from the first session.
She listens for each person's story and works with them to set clear, practical goals. Sessions often focus on improving communication, coping with mood changes, and healing from past trauma.
Background and approach
Yulando tailors tools to fit a client's life and daily routines rather than offering one-size-fits-all answers. Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and acceptance-based methods that clarify values and small steps toward them. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to change habits but feel stuck.
Yulando emphasizes collaboration and teaches skills that can be practiced between sessions. She pays attention to cultural background and personal context when planning treatment. The work aims to build resilience, improve relationships, and reduce symptoms that interfere with everyday life.
For parents and professionals juggling many demands, she offers concrete strategies for sleep, stress, and self-care. Her approach mixes practical problem solving with space to process grief, shame, or past hurt. Clients leave with clear next steps and tools to use outside of sessions.
Therapeutic Approaches and How They Work Online
Yulando commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT sessions focus on concrete steps and homework you can try between appointments, which can be reviewed over video or text.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult feelings. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions and adapts well to conversations by phone or video.
Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges to decide which methods to use. That means sessions can shift as needs change and new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is helpful for full conversations and working through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or low-bandwidth situations. Live chat or text messaging can be used for quick check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing encouragement between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English