Yaritza Pineiro, LMHC

Yaritza Pineiro is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who offers therapy in both English and Spanish. She draws on seven years of clinical work in mental health and addiction settings. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to address everyday struggles.

Yaritza blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered care to help people understand how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotional regulation and stress management. Her background includes work with substance use concerns and mood disorders, which informs how she frames treatment goals.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Yaritza helps people develop coping tools for anxiety, depression, panic, and overwhelming stress. She also supports those facing grief, trauma, relationship and parenting stress, and questions about identity, including LGBT concerns.

When trauma symptoms are present, she incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) alongside mindfulness practices to reduce distress and build resilience. Motivational interviewing techniques are used to strengthen commitment to change for addictions and lifestyle shifts.

Clients can expect clear, modest steps to practice between sessions and check-ins on progress. Yaritza aims to make therapy a collaborative effort that fits each person's goals and day-to-day life.

How CBT and DBT translate to online care

Yaritza commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to focus on skills and day-to-day change. CBT helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced thinking, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication.

She also uses client-centered techniques to keep the process collaborative and EMDR elements when trauma symptoms are present. Finding the right approach is part of the work together; the therapist will review needs, goals, and comfort with different methods and adjust the plan based on what works for the client.

Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills coaching, phone can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited, chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or for people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on concrete skills and progress.