About Yolanda
Yolanda Dunn helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing life changes, compassion fatigue, anger, and a wide range of relationship and adjustment issues. Yolanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with six years of clinical experience.
She uses a straightforward, empathetic approach in sessions. Conversations focus on what is troubling the person now and on practical steps to feel better.
Background and approach
She listens first, then pairs that listening with tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and improve daily coping. Yolanda blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices. She encourages small, steady changes that add up over time.
Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas are used when they fit the person’s goals. Her background includes working with people across a wide range of life situations. She aims to build trust quickly and to offer clear suggestions people can try between sessions.
Her style is warm, direct, and nonjudgmental. Outside of work she enjoys fitness, music, sports, and spending time with family and friends. She relocated to Atlanta for graduate school and has lived and practiced in Georgia since then.
Yolanda seeks to help people get through tough times and find practical ways to move forward.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Client-centered therapy centers the person in the room and focuses on understanding their experience without judgment. It helps when someone needs space to talk and be heard while they work out what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behaviors. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm in everyday moments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the person’s goals and try methods that match those needs. Over time they will adjust techniques together so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let the person have a fuller conversation and pick up on facial cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps someone focus. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting schedules, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English