About Yvonne
Dr. Yvonne Foster uses a practical, goal-focused approach to help people make changes that matter. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
Her style is direct and interactive, aiming for clear steps rather than open-ended therapy. Dr. Foster brings 25 years of experience to her practice in Pennsylvania and communicates plainly about what to expect.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and addictions.
Background and approach
Other areas of attention include grief, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and parenting stress. She also works with issues related to trauma and abuse and with people navigating major life changes. Dr.
Foster has experience supporting LGBT concerns, family-related problems, and a range of attachment and communication difficulties. Her background includes work with people on the autism spectrum and a decade in disability services at the college level. That experience informs how she adapts pacing and expectations in sessions.
Sessions are practical and aim for measurable progress. She combines cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior with mindfulness practices to build awareness and self-regulation. The client-centered stance keeps the person’s goals at the lead of every plan.
She is straightforward about fit and progress, and will discuss if another approach or referral is needed. Dr. Foster works with individuals who want active, hands-on guidance to move through life challenges and reach clear goals.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals first and shapes sessions around what matters most to them. It involves listening closely, reflecting concerns back, and adjusting plans to fit each person's pace and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs an individualized plan for relationship or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses structured exercises and clear homework to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, addictions, and coping skills. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve awareness during stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those aims, and adjust if something isn’t working. Together they set short-term targets and check progress so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and relationship work. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not needed or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a shorter update fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English