Yvette Medina, LCPC

Yvette Medina is a bicultural Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years in the mental health field. She brings a warm, approachable style and a light sense of humor to sessions. She encourages people to take the first step and stay for the work, celebrating progress both large and small during the process.

Yvette often starts by getting to know someone in simple, direct terms so a nervous first meeting feels easier. She aims to meet each person where they are and to help them discover inner strengths. She describes herself as an advocate and supporter who will notice and celebrate achievements made in therapy.

Her background includes work in addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness services, family reunification, and general mental health care. She has particular experience with major depressive disorder, bipolar concerns, personality disorders, complex trauma and abuse, prenatal and postpartum depression, and family and relationship conflicts.

She also has experience with anxiety, intellectual and developmental disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders, and immigration and acculturation issues. Yvette is a vocal advocate for people from the LGBT community and draws on her Latinx and bicultural perspective when relevant to a person’s experience.

Clinically she uses practical methods from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior tools, attachment-based thinking, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused techniques. She encourages regular self-care and often weaves manageable self-care steps into therapy goals.

How therapeutic approaches fit into online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help when worry, avoidance, or life changes get in the way of living in line with what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they shape current reactions; it can be useful for relationship struggles and intimacy-related concerns.

Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean blending approaches or shifting strategies as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, such as scheduling a shorter check-in during a work break, avoiding travel time, or choosing a session style that uses less bandwidth. Licensed professionals can guide how to use these sessions to practice skills, process difficult experiences, and track small steps toward change without promising specific outcomes.