About Yovani
Yovani Hernandez is a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of experience helping people manage major life stresses. She holds an LCSW in North Carolina and an LISW-CP in South Carolina and brings a straightforward, compassionate style to sessions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy lives.
Her approach focuses on real problems like anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, career strain, and relationship strain.
How Yovani works
She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps build steps that fit daily life. Sessions include concrete skills and chances to reflect on patterns that keep someone stuck. Yovani uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to match a person’s needs.
Those include acceptance-based strategies, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior techniques, and emotion regulation skills. She blends tools rather than following one single method. People who prefer a direct but warm therapist often find her helpful.
She supports those working through parenting stress, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and identity questions. She also addresses complex diagnoses like bipolar disorder and ADHD alongside practical coping plans. Her work emphasizes communication, rebuilding trust with oneself, and clearer decision making.
New clients start by describing what feels hardest right now, then set short goals to test small changes. Therapy aims to produce manageable changes that fit each person’s life and values.
Yovani lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Yovani works with
The areas below are the ones Yovani selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and early patterns that affect how someone connects; it helps with intimacy, trust, and family-of-origin concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is helpful for mood, anxiety, and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that draws from different methods as needed rather than a single fixed model.
Online work offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people engage face to face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or fitting support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to try approaches that fit real life.
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A practical next step
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