About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience in mental health. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, approachable manner to sessions. Yvette encourages people to take the first step toward feeling better and offers steady support through the process.
She tends to make introductions easy and quick so conversations feel natural. She aims to help people find their inner strength and celebrates progress, large and small.
Background and approach
Humor and empathy are part of her guiding style. Yvette has worked in nonprofit settings focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and general mental health. Her clinical work has included depression, bipolar disorder, personality issues, complex trauma, prenatal and postpartum depression, and relationship conflict.
She also has experience with anxiety, developmental and intellectual differences, and immigration or acculturation concerns. Her practice draws on several practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-based ideas, client-centered care, and dialectical behavior skills. She adapts methods to what each person needs in the moment rather than following a single fixed plan.
Yvette speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. She supports people navigating grief, stress, addiction, parenting strain, career pressure, and concerns related to identity and intimacy. She invites clients to build goals that include regular self-care and small measurable steps toward those goals.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to values-based actions that move life forward. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change behaviors and mood. It often suits depression, anxiety, and stress-related problems.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations in current relationships and helps people create healthier ways to connect. This approach can be helpful for intimacy issues, family conflict, and attachment concerns.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Yvette will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat can support short check-ins, homework, or more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish, American Sign Language
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