About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years of experience in mental health. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Her approach is conversational and practical, and she aims to help people find everyday strategies that fit their lives.
She focuses on common and complex concerns such as stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
How Yvette works
Yvette also supports people facing relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and career stress. She is an advocate for LGBT people and has experience with immigration and acculturation issues. Her work draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
In sessions she mixes evidence-based techniques with practical coaching, mindfulness, and problem-solving. She aims to meet clients where they are and build on their strengths. Yvette has spent much of her career at a nonprofit, focusing on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and broader mental health needs.
That background informs a pragmatic style that values concrete steps and steady progress. She emphasizes self-care and celebrates small achievements as part of a longer healing process. Outside of work she enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking and photography.
She speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language and is comfortable working with international clients.
Yvette lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English, Spanish, American Sign Language |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear exercises and homework.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication. These skills can be helpful for intense emotions, relationship strains, and impulse control challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so techniques stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, do shorter touchpoints, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy in ways that match a person's routine.
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