Yvette Medina, LCPC
Hopeful, practical counseling with a bicultural perspective
Details
| Name | Yvette Medina |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCPC |
| Based in | Illinois |
| Licensed in | Illinois |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English, Spanish, American Sign Language |
| Years in practice | 18 |
About Yvette
Yvette Medina is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She brings a warm, down-to-earth style and a sense of humor to sessions. Yvette speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language and draws on her bicultural background to connect with clients.
She encourages small steps and celebrates progress, however modest, as people work toward change. Yvette focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing parenting strain, intimacy concerns, career shifts, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and coping after disasters. Her approach blends Narrative ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, plus attachment-based and client-centered methods.
That means conversations will include telling and reworking personal stories, noticing what matters to the client, and learning concrete skills to manage thoughts and behavior. In sessions she aims to meet people where they are. Early meetings typically begin with simple introductions and practical goals.
Yvette uses a collaborative tone and focuses on actions that fit daily life, such as coping strategies, values-based choices, and communication practice. She has worked in nonprofit settings with experience in addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, and family reunification. That background informs a pragmatic style that balances support with skill-building.
Yvette also encourages regular self-care and makes space to acknowledge both setbacks and successes.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse among the things Yvette works with, alongside the areas below.
- 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 listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Systemic Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Yvette directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Yvette directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Yvette’s Approaches Work Online
Yvette combines Narrative work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused thinking to help people online. Narrative work looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives and helps reframe those stories so they feel less stuck. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying values and taking small actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns in relationships and help people notice how early bonds affect current connections and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. She will listen to your concerns, try different techniques, and adjust methods based on your goals and what feels helpful. The therapist and client decide collaboratively which tools to use and how to pace the work.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, homework support, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it possible to fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or travel while maintaining continuity of care.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Yvette address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting and intimacy-related struggles, and coping with life changes and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her work blends Narrative ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy within a client-centered, attachment-aware approach. Sessions mix storytelling, values work, and practical skill-building.
How much experience does she have?
Yvette has 18 years of experience in the mental health field and has worked in nonprofit programs focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, and family reunification.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working with her?
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