About Yasmin
Dr. Yasmin Lluveras helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and trauma. She also supports people facing issues related to LGBT identity, parenting, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California and brings 24 years of professional experience. Her approach is straightforward and practical. She treats people as the experts on their own lives and looks for the strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, useful steps that start to change day-to-day patterns. She uses clear goals so progress is visible as work continues. Dr.
Lluveras draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice thinking patterns that keep problems going. She also uses solution-focused conversations to highlight what is already working and build on it. For people affected by past hurt, trauma-focused methods help process and reduce the hold of painful memories.
In sessions she balances listening with gentle guidance and actionable strategies. She helps clients practice new skills between sessions so changes translate to real life. Conversations are aimed at improving mood, easing anxiety, and repairing strained connections.
Her background includes long-term clinical work across a variety of settings in California. With two decades of experience she has worked with diverse concerns such as bipolar disorder, grief from life changes, adoption and foster care issues, and sexual diversity topics like kink and polyamory. She speaks English and offers multiple online session formats.
How her approaches work online
Dr. Lluveras commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused work in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and learn new ways of reacting to them; it can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns by teaching practical coping skills. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on what is already going well and builds step-by-step plans to expand those successes; it is useful when clients want quick, goal-oriented change.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or on-camera time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or have a shorter touchpoint during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family schedules while still using CBT and solution-focused tools effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English