Yvette Lanausse, LCSW

Yvette Lanausse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She works with concerns like addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, career struggles, and mood disorders. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and she practices from California.

Yvette favors a practical style. She listens first, then helps clients notice patterns in thoughts and behavior. She uses cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thoughts and draws on mindfulness to reduce reactivity and ease strong emotions.

Her background includes three years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. The LCSW credential indicates clinical social work training and supervised practice in California. She brings experience helping people adjust to medical diagnoses, cope with chronic pain, and process trauma.

In sessions she aims for clear goals and doable steps. That may mean tracking thought patterns, practicing grounding or breathing exercises, and testing small behavioral changes between meetings. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at past influences when that helps the present situation.

Yvette accepts international clients and offers flexible session formats. Her approach is collaborative - she helps each person find pacing and techniques that fit their life and values.

Approaches that translate to online care

Yvette commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people manage thoughts and reduce distress. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions with homework and skill-building. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve emotional regulation, useful for anxiety, chronic pain, and stress.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space where goals are set together. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and daily life, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is well suited for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets clients share updates between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules, travel, and varying energy levels.