About Yvette
Yvette Carreon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is straightforward and collaborative.
She aims to make therapy approachable and useful for everyday life. She draws from several evidence-based methods to tailor sessions to each person. That can mean practicing new coping skills, changing unhelpful thought patterns, or building emotional regulation tools.
How Yvette works
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. The aim is to create small changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Yvette also works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
She addresses relationship stress, career strain, and identity-related challenges including LGBT topics. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and adjustment after separation or loss. Over her career she has integrated client-centered approaches with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing are often part of the work when people want better focus, motivation, or emotion regulation. She adapts methods to a person’s needs rather than following a single model. Yvette practices in California and conducts sessions in English.
People who prefer practical, down-to-earth therapy that emphasizes coping strategies and small achievable goals may find her approach a good fit.
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What Yvette works with
The areas below are the ones Yvette 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Yvette commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people clarify what they want to change, making sessions collaborative and person-driven. CBT looks at current thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to shift patterns that cause distress. DBT centers on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how someone manages intense feelings and relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yvette will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques so they fit daily life and the issues someone brings to sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions are flexible and can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, shorter coaching-style support, or ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on practical skills and progress.
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