About Yvette
Yvette Lanausse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She supports concerns related to relationships, intimacy, addictions, eating and self-esteem, and offers care for mood disorders including bipolar. She meets people in English and Spanish and works with those facing medical and caregiving challenges.
Yvette keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens to what matters most and helps people identify small, useful steps they can try between appointments.
Background and approach
Conversations can include how thoughts, emotions, and body sensations interact when stress or pain flare up. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness. That means she helps people notice patterns in thinking, test new ways of responding, and practice skills that calm the body and mind.
She also draws on psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas when exploring deeper patterns or building fast, targeted strategies. Yvette trained at the University of Southern California with a Master of Social Work and holds a California LCSW license, CA LCSW 23031. She has three years of clinical experience and has worked with people facing chronic illness, trauma, and adjustment to medical diagnoses.
Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. People who are juggling caregiving, work, or treatment appointments may find these options helpful for keeping therapy consistent. Yvette aims to find approaches that fit each person’s goals and day-to-day life.
Approaches and Benefits of Online Therapy
Yvette often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to structure online sessions. Client-centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and creating space for them to set the pace and goals of therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean trying mindfulness practices at home, using CBT exercises between sessions, or exploring life patterns more slowly with psychodynamic ideas when helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, medical appointments, and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress and usable tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish