About Yvette
Yvette Carreon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She uses a straightforward, warm approach so people feel heard and can start making small changes right away. She also supports concerns like grief, anger, low self-esteem, career strain, compassion fatigue, and issues important to LGBT clients.
Her work blends practical techniques with a focus on each person's strengths.
Background and approach
Yvette draws from client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Dialectical behavior techniques and mindfulness practices are part of her toolkit for managing intense emotions and building steadier routines.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about making a change. These methods are mixed to fit a person’s goals rather than applied in a single rigid way. Yvette practices in California and offers sessions that suit different schedules and needs.
She aims to make therapy practical, with steps people can try between meetings. Her emphasis is on clear, doable strategies that help with everyday life and major transitions. People who want a collaborative, experienced clinician who listens and adapts methods to their situation often find her approach useful.
Her focus is on helping clients build tools, handle setbacks, and find more satisfying ways of coping.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Yvette commonly combines client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies in online sessions. Client-centered work means conversations focus on what matters most to the person, with the therapist reflecting and helping prioritize goals. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and reframe unhelpful thinking. Dialectical behavior techniques teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and skills for handling intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right mix of methods is a shared process. She collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, pace, and goals. If a method isn’t helping, adjustments are made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler option for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging support brief updates, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between appointments. These options support continuity and flexibility while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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