About Yolanda
Yolanda Lewis is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with individuals struggling with addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Her style is direct and compassionate, aiming to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Yolanda treats each person as an individual and shapes conversations to fit their needs.
How Yolanda works
She listens for what matters most and builds a plan that feels practical. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and patience while helping people find clearer ways to cope. Her sessions focus on everyday tools people can use between meetings.
That can include ways to reduce anxiety, strategies for staying motivated, and steps to address unhealthy patterns linked to addiction. She also helps people work through guilt, shame, and communication problems that interfere with daily life. Yolanda has worked in California for two decades and draws on that experience when tailoring treatment.
She pays attention to how past trauma or post-traumatic stress shows up now, and she supports gradual change at a manageable pace. People often begin by naming a few immediate goals and then move forward from there. She offers help in English and provides therapy through a range of online formats.
The first step is completing a short questionnaire so sessions can be matched to a schedule and needs.
What Yolanda works with
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Yolanda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes teaching concrete strategies for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools aim to reduce day-to-day distress and build confidence in handling triggers.Another approach concentrates on recovery from addictions and trauma by identifying patterns that keep problems active and replacing them with healthier habits. This work often includes setting clear short-term goals, addressing guilt and shame, and practicing new ways of communicating when old reactions arise. It is aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and comfort level. That choice can change over time as needs and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or checking in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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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.
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