About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years of experience in mental health care. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm sense of humor to sessions. Yvette aims to help people take the first step toward feeling better and finding strength inside themselves.
She works in practical, straightforward ways. Early sessions focus on getting to know each person and building trust. Over time she helps clients set small, achievable goals and celebrates progress along the way.
Background and approach
Yvette emphasizes meeting people where they are and offering steady support. Her work spans stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, career questions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and reactions to disasters. Yvette uses several therapy approaches to fit the person in front of her. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Those tools are adapted to each person's needs rather than applied rigidly. Outside of work she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and novelas. She encourages regular self-care and works with clients to make self-care part of their daily routines.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to change behavior and mood. CBT often helps with stress, anxiety, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape reactions today; it can help with relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, and attachment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yvette will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques as needed and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to access care from different locations, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for the person.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish, American Sign Language