About Yvette
Yvette Carreon is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years in the mental health field. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and work- or career-related concerns. She speaks English and practices in California as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker).
Yvette uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She draws on client-centered work to focus on each person’s goals and strengths.
Background and approach
She also blends cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions are aimed at real-life skills you can use between meetings. She often includes strategies from dialectical behavior therapy when intense emotions or relationship patterns make day-to-day life harder.
Motivational interviewing is used to help people find the reasons and energy to make changes that matter to them. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments. Yvette describes therapy as a joint effort.
She talks through practical options with each person and tailors approaches to fit their situation. The tone in sessions is direct, compassionate, and focused on useful steps. Her background spans clinical work across many settings over a long career.
That experience informs how she helps people cope with loss, setbacks, and major life transitions. She aims to leave people with clearer choices and stronger tools for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Yvette often uses client-centered work to focus sessions on your goals and experiences. This approach emphasizes listening, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you choose practical next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy is also a common tool she uses to spot thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, and then practice more helpful ways of responding.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or camera use feels uncomfortable. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and flexible contact between scheduled sessions. These formats help make therapy fit into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on usable skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English