Yvette Medina

Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years of experience in the mental health field. She brings a bicultural perspective, a warm sense of humor, and an encouraging stance when people begin therapy. Yvette aims to make the first meetings feel easy and familiar so clients can talk about what matters. She emphasizes celebrating progress, large and small, as part of the work together.

Yvette has worked extensively in settings focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and general mental health care. Her clinical background includes work with major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, complex trauma and abuse, prenatal and postpartum depression, and life transitions. She also has experience supporting people with anxiety, developmental and intellectual differences, and immigration or acculturation challenges.

As a Latinx bicultural counselor she often draws on shared cultural experiences to build rapport. Her toolbox includes client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused counseling. She adjusts methods to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single approach.

Yvette supports people facing relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She encourages regular self-care and weaves practical self-care reminders into goal-setting. Outside work she enjoys reading, travel, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and novelas.

She offers services in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language, and accepts international clients. To begin, visitors follow the site Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and can help with intimacy, communication, and relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Yvette will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. The process often begins with simple, practical steps and builds toward the skills people find most helpful.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are set by the therapist's practice. Online sessions can make it easier to fit care into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people keep therapy consistent when schedules change, and make it simpler to include materials or worksheets during a meeting. If you have questions about how sessions are scheduled or the technical setup, check the booking flow or ask when you complete the matching questionnaire.