About Yadira
Yadira McBurney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on building confidence and motivation while addressing workplace and career concerns. Her style is warm and collaborative, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult feelings.
Clients can expect a conversational and practical approach. Yadira works with each person to set clear goals and small steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She pays attention to patterns like attachment, control issues, and feelings of abandonment that often underlie anxiety and self-doubt. Therapy sessions often include exploring self-worth, forgiveness, and ways to reduce isolation and shame. Conversations also cover practical problem solving for work stress and career decisions.
Yadira supports people through divorce or separation and the emotional fallout those changes can bring. The plan is shaped around what feels doable for the individual. Progress is tracked in simple ways so people can see what’s changing.
Sessions aim to restore a sense of agency and increase self-love through steady, achievable work. Yadira holds a California LCSW license and brings a decade of practice to each meeting. Sessions are offered in English and use flexible formats to fit different schedules.
She encourages people to take the first step and begin with a short intake to match goals and timing.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Two evidence-based approaches often used are skills-focused work and attachment-focused exploration. Skills-focused work teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and low mood - breathing, grounding, and planning small daily steps to build momentum. Attachment-focused exploration looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust, control, and abandonment fears, helping people notice and change repetitive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which techniques to try first. That collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust methods if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video allows deeper face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options add flexibility for juggling work, family, and other responsibilities while keeping steady therapeutic progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English