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 blends warmth and straightforward talk to help people begin hard work. She knows starting therapy can feel scary and aims to make the first meetings feel relaxed and human.

Yvette centers sessions on where a person is right now. She uses clear, practical tools to address stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, work stress, and issues around identity and intimacy.

Her background includes nonprofit work focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and mental health care. That experience informs how she approaches complex situations like bipolar disorder, personality concerns, trauma and abuse, and prenatal or postpartum depression.

Yvette draws on several approaches to shape treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), attachment-based work, client-centered care, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with tools and homework when helpful.

She speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. She welcomes international clients and matches the approach to each person’s goals. Outside of work she enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and watching novelas.

How evidence-based approaches work online

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. Online CBT sessions often include short skill-building exercises and homework to practice between meetings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most and take committed steps toward those values. In teletherapy ACT can use brief mindfulness practices and values-based planning that fit into a busy schedule.

Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how those early patterns affect current connections. Online conversations and role-based exercises can help people try new ways of relating and repair communication problems.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that match those goals and adjust as progress is made.

Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video is not convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins or brief coaching possible between longer meetings. These options add flexibility for scheduling, work breaks, and different comfort levels with being on camera.