About Yonna
Yonna Swingholm is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience in psychotherapy. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in California. Her work emphasizes building a clear therapeutic relationship and finding practical ways to help people move forward.
She trained in social work and has used an integrative approach across her career. She often blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools to address the issues people bring.
How Yonna works
Sessions focus on identifying clear goals and matching methods to those goals. Yonna brings experience working with people affected by trauma, addiction, and grief. She also helps with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and navigating life changes.
Sexuality, intimacy-related concerns, and women's issues are included among her focus areas. She uses mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing alongside other approaches to support coping and change. This can include brief skills practice, goal setting, and reflective conversation about values and purpose.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth: she listens, offers options, and adjusts based on what works for each person. Practical concerns are part of sessions too - parenting strain, career choices, and recovery from separation are common topics. Yonna describes therapy as a process of working together to find steps that fit a person's life.
She aims to make therapy useful, understandable, and relevant to day-to-day needs.
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What Yonna works with
The areas below are the ones Yonna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with respect and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the individual. In practice this means the therapist asks about goals, reflects what she hears, and adapts pacing and focus to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful habits; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and some trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Yonna works collaboratively to decide which methods to try first and adjusts plans based on progress and feedback. Clients and therapist set goals together and review what helps, so the work stays practical and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging suits ongoing brief support and reminders. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and needs, while keeping the focus on real steps and skills that fit a person's routine.
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