Yvette Medina

Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years working in mental health. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Yvette aims to make early meetings feel relaxed so people can focus on needs instead of nerves.

She emphasizes practical steps alongside emotional support. Yvette has experience in addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and a range of mental health concerns. Her practice includes work with depression, bipolar conditions, personality disorders, complex trauma and abuse, anxiety, and prenatal and postpartum depression.

Yvette uses several approaches to tailor care to each person. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness. Sessions include goal work, skill building, and chances to notice progress and strengths.

As a Latinx bicultural counselor she often relates through shared cultural experiences and can work in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. She is also an advocate for people in the LGBT community and has experience with immigration and acculturation challenges.

Outside of work she enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and watching novelas. She encourages regular self-care and will include manageable self-care steps in treatment goals.

How Yvette’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Yvette uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process difficult memories in manageable steps and reduce the ways past events get in the way of daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify personal values, build psychological flexibility, and help people notice unhelpful patterns while making value-driven choices. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, and it supports building more secure ways of relating.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Yvette will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so the plan stays useful and relevant to progress and life changes.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day and to meet from different locations when needed. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or sessions without video if that feels better. Licensed professionals like Yvette aim to use online sessions to keep therapy practical and focused on real-life goals.