About Yolanda
Yolanda Batres-Espinoza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Yolanda approaches care with an affirming stance toward LGBT clients and aims to make therapy a practical place to learn new skills.
She trained at Fuller Theological Seminary where she earned a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy with an emphasis in Medical Family Therapy.
How Yolanda works
Early work in community mental health shaped her focus on accessible care for people from underserved neighborhoods. That experience helped her learn concrete ways to reduce the stigma around seeking help. Yolanda uses approaches that center relationships and personal strengths.
She draws from Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing to address stress, anxiety, trauma and depression. Sessions include talking through difficult moments and practicing small, practical changes between meetings. She commonly helps people coping with grief, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and the fallout of trauma or abuse.
Additional focus areas include attachment wounds, abandonment, bodies and body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication challenges. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients may be seen.
To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
Yolanda lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Yolanda works with
The areas below are the ones Yolanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How approaches like attachment work online
Yolanda uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help people notice patterns in close relationships and understand how early bonds affect current reactions; this approach can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment wounds, and communication struggles. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy appears in her work as a supportive stance that prioritizes the person's experience and helps them guide what feels most important in sessions.Choosing the right approach is something she does together with each person. Yolanda talks with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. That collaborative process helps decide whether to focus on changing thoughts and behaviors, exploring relationship patterns, or building present-moment coping skills.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a work break or use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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