About Yellda
Yellda McIntosh is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while people work toward feeling more grounded and confident. Her approach is practical and aimed at small, achievable changes that make daily life easier.
In sessions she pays attention to patterns that keep people stuck. She helps clients notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
That can mean working on emotion regulation, improving communication, or building routines that reduce overwhelm. Her work often focuses on issues tied to relationships and identity, such as attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, and blended family stress. She also supports people facing chronic pain, aging challenges, or caregiving strain, and those navigating mood concerns like bipolar disorder.
Yellda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work. That can include teaching coping skills, practicing new ways to respond to strong emotions, and setting clear behavioral goals to test out changes between sessions. Clients can expect straightforward feedback, goal-oriented planning, and attention to practical steps they can use right away.
She aims to create a collaborative space where people can feel seen and take steady steps toward the life they want. Yellda practices in Colorado and conducts therapy in English. She holds the LPC credential and brings over a decade of clinical experience to each session.
How evidence-based work fits into online therapy
Yellda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people change patterns that cause distress. One common approach she uses focuses on teaching emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills to reduce intense reactions and anxiety. This approach is useful for people who want concrete tools to calm strong feelings and handle crisis moments.Another approach centers on examining and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. That work involves identifying beliefs that lead to avoidance or withdrawal and testing new behaviors to see what changes. It can help with depression, avoidance, and improving communication in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Yellda works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. She helps clients try techniques and adjusts the plan based on what actually helps them in practice.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and differing needs. Video calls allow longer, face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates, work through small moments, or keep steady contact between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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