- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish, American Sign Language
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years in the mental health field. She brings a bicultural perspective and a warm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Yvette greets clients with empathy and a little humor to help people feel at ease quickly.
She encourages parents and individuals to notice and use their strengths as they work through hard moments. Yvette often supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps with parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, and career changes. Her practice includes work on complex concerns such as bipolar disorder, personality challenges, and co-occurring conditions. Her approach blends talk therapy with practical skills.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take manageable action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping patterns. She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to strengthen emotional connection and trust.
Yvette has experience in community settings focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, and family reunification. She also works with people facing adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and immigration-related challenges. She is an advocate for LGBT people and offers services in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Outside of work she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and novelas. She encourages regular self-care as part of therapy goals and celebrates progress, big or small, alongside the people she supports.
What Yvette works with
Everything Yvette lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Yvette helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Yvette lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, guided steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making meaningful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is useful for depression, anxiety, and coping skills development. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current connection patterns and can help with intimacy, communication, and family-related concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, suggest methods that may fit, and adjust strategies as you work together. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to see what is helping and what needs to change so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when scheduling shorter contacts during a workday. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions around parenting, work, and travel.
Questions people ask about Yvette
What concerns does she commonly address?
Yvette helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, parenting concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm, direct, and practical with a sense of humor. She blends talk therapy with skill-building and focuses on strengths and values.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience working in the mental health field, including roles in addiction treatment and community-based services.
What credentials and region apply to this therapist?
She holds an LCPC credential and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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