About Ngnoron
Ngnoron Yapo is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings three years of clinical experience to her practice in Iowa. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also supports those struggling with addiction, relationship concerns, and challenges around self-esteem and motivation.
Her approach is direct and practical. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Ngnoron works
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, step-by-step strategies, and small changes that add up over time. Yapo often helps people manage intense emotions like anger, grief, and emptiness. She works with clients dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems.
She also addresses eating and sleeping difficulties, career stress, parenting strain, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT concerns. Because she values concrete progress, sessions may include skills practice, problem-solving, and planning for realistic next steps. She pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, blended family challenges, divorce, or past domestic violence and substance use.
Her style seeks to make difficult problems more manageable. Therapy with Yapo is collaborative. She helps people weigh options, try new behaviors, and notice what works.
People who want practical support and clear tools for coping may find her way of working useful.
What Ngnoron works with
The areas below are the ones Ngnoron selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Two evidence-based techniques often used in her sessions are behavioral skill building and trauma-informed coping strategies. Behavioral skill building focuses on teaching concrete skills like emotion regulation, sleep routines, and relapse prevention for addictions. Trauma-informed coping strategies help people reduce overwhelm by grounding, paced breathing, and manageable exposure to difficult memories.Another common element is work on attachment and relationship patterns. This involves identifying recurring interaction styles, practicing new communication skills, and planning small experiments to change old habits that cause distress. These approaches are aimed at practical changes that improve daily life and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist and client will review needs, goals, and preferences, then try approaches that fit best. Progress is checked along the way and methods are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for more in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Explore online therapy optionsWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What issues does this therapist help with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available?
How does pricing work for sessions?
How do I begin working with this therapist?
A practical next step
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.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions