About Yeni
Yeni Hercules is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and speaks English and Spanish. She focuses on stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, and relationship concerns.
She also helps with parenting strain, sleep problems, self-esteem, career questions, grief, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, and immigration-related stress.
How Yeni works
Her approach blends practical methods that help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior with techniques that strengthen relationships. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going, and applies the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict in close relationships.
Mindfulness exercises and solution-focused steps are used to build short-term coping skills, and hypnotherapy may be used when appropriate. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Yeni aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through feelings without judgment.
She helps people set clear, manageable goals and practices skills together during sessions. Yeni works with a coaching mindset at times, helping people apply what they learn between sessions. She supports parents dealing with caregiving stress and people facing divorce, grief, or forgiveness challenges.
The focus is practical progress and clearer next steps for daily life.
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What Yeni works with
The areas below are the ones Yeni 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
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Yeni blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method into online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress; it teaches practical tools you can use between sessions. The Gottman Method targets communication and conflict patterns in close relationships and offers specific exercises to reduce harmful cycles and increase constructive interaction.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Yeni works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. She reviews progress and adjusts methods so therapy stays focused on meaningful, achievable changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth for brief check-ins, live chat supports written back-and-forth, and messaging helps with quick progress notes or short coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work consistently over time.
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