About Yolanda
Yolanda Dunn helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addictive behaviors. She also supports those facing parenting strain, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and big life changes. Yolanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with six years of clinical experience working in Georgia.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She focuses on building trust and getting to know everyday life pressures.
How Yolanda works
Sessions are practical and aimed at changing unhelpful thinking and finding workable routines. She uses listening, gentle challenge, and clear steps so people can leave with something to try between sessions. Yolanda often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns in thinking and behavior.
She pairs that with client-centered methods that let each person set goals and move at their own pace. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are added when someone needs help staying focused on change. In a typical meeting she will help a person name the problem, break it down into smaller parts, and try short experiments to see what works.
She also brings psychodynamic ideas when early patterns feel relevant to current struggles. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. People describe her approach as encouraging and practical.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible follow-up and check-ins. Yolanda’s practice is based in Georgia and she conducts work in English.
Yolanda lists 6 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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Yolanda’s approaches fit online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities. The therapist follows the individual’s lead, offers empathy, and helps clarify what change would look like. This approach is useful for improving self-esteem, parenting stress, and motivation to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going. It breaks issues into steps and uses short experiments to test new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, trauma-related patterns, and addictive behaviors.
Yolanda treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust strategies as progress is made. Finding the right fit is part of the work together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work visually through exercises and share worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework planning, and quick follow-up between longer sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and make regular contact more practical.
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