About Yolanda
Yolanda Batres-Espinoza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with five years of clinical experience based in California. She draws on her own early experience with therapy to offer a warm, affirming approach. Yolanda speaks English and Spanish and connects with people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBT individuals.
Yolanda began her work in community mental health settings in East Los Angeles. She has focused on helping people facing trauma, depression, anxiety, and stress.
Background and approach
Over time she developed particular interest in phobias and related anxiety concerns, as well as relationship and family issues. Her sessions are practical and conversational. She listens first, then helps people set small, usable goals.
She uses techniques that help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and manage overwhelming feelings one step at a time. Common topics she addresses include grief, anger, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and challenges linked to caregiving or chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, and family-of-origin problems.
Clients often work on clearer communication, boundary setting, and rebuilding trust. Yolanda blends methods such as attachment-informed work, client-centered conversation, cognitive tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. Sessions can be held in English or Spanish and are offered through video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
To start, she asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Yolanda commonly uses attachment-informed work, client-centered conversation, and cognitive behavioral approaches. Attachment-informed work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect feelings and reactions. Client-centered conversation emphasizes listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors, helping people test unhelpful ideas and try new coping strategies; this can be useful for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Yolanda collaborates with each person to identify what fits best based on their goals, life situation, and comfort level. She will adjust methods as progress is made and as needs change, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible through flexible formats. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people track progress between sessions. These options let people arrange sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping a steady path toward clearer thinking and better coping.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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