Yvette Medina, LCPC
Compassionate counselor with a practical focus
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- Bicultural perspective
- Values-based work
- 18 years experience
About Yvette
Yvette often supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and grief. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, intimacy issues, and major life transitions. Her background includes work in addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness services, and family reunification programs.
Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered conversations to build trust, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and small, steady steps. Dialectical behavior skills and attachment-based ideas appear when they help with emotional regulation and relationships.
Yvette speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language and identifies as a Latinx/bicultural counselor. She is an advocate for LGBT people and has experience with immigration and acculturation issues, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and prenatal and postpartum mood concerns.
Outside of work she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and watching novelas. She encourages regular self-care and celebrates small accomplishments along the way.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
18+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English, Spanish, American Sign Language
How these approaches translate to online work
Yvette commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can be useful for life transitions, grief, and midlife concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and practicing small changes to feel better day to day.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns influence present connections. That can help people with intimacy, communication, and recurring relationship problems. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative; the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences to find the best fit and adjust as progress unfolds.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Many people find remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Yvette aims to help clients apply skills between sessions and to structure work so it fits everyday life, whether addressing anxiety, midlife adjustment, or coping with loss.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly help with?
Yvette works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and practical. She mixes client-centered conversations with cognitive and acceptance-based techniques to set clear, doable goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience working across community mental health, addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness services, and family reunification programs.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LCPC credential as an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and practices in Illinois.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
She accepts international clients; confirm logistics and scheduling details when you begin the process.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.