About Destiny
Destiny York is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who uses a client-centered approach to help people facing tough life moments. She focuses on practical steps and honest conversation so clients can make meaningful changes. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to address anxiety, depression, and stress.
These methods help people notice thought patterns and learn skills to manage intense emotions. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding the drive to change behaviors like addiction.
How Destiny works
Destiny has four years of clinical experience working with concerns that include trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting stress, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses challenges tied to ADHD, self-esteem, career transitions, and boundary or communication problems.
Her practice includes more specific focus areas such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family tensions, codependency, and working with people involved in adoption and foster care. She also has experience with BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture matters, as well as complex presentations like dissociation and co-morbidity. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
Destiny helps people set clear goals, build coping tools, and practice new ways of handling daily stressors. She aims to support steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who choose her can expect straightforward feedback, empathy, and a plan tailored to their needs.
Destiny helps clients translate insight into real changes they can use in everyday life.
Destiny lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Destiny works with
The areas below are the ones Destiny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the client's goals and values at the center of sessions and emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's pace and focuses on what matters most to them in their daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. Online CBT often uses short exercises between sessions, worksheets, and goal-setting to tackle anxiety, depression, and stressors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These practical tools can be practiced during video sessions and reinforced through text or live chat check-ins.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process helps ensure the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask brief questions, or review coping strategies between sessions. Together, these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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