About Yvette
Yvette Melendez is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She offers calm, steady support for issues like low self-esteem, stress, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep or eating problems, and life transitions. Yvette works with adults on practical steps they can use day to day.
She is based in New York and holds a New York LCSW license.
Background and approach
Yvette keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She listens for the life patterns that keep people stuck and helps them understand how past experiences shape current feelings. Conversations often include looking at reactions, shifting unhelpful habits, and building small routines that improve daily functioning.
Therapy can include coaching-style guidance alongside reflective work. Her background spans four decades of practice, which gives her familiarity with many kinds of struggles from postpartum depression to obsessive or compulsive thoughts. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, caregiving stress, immigration-related strain, and the aftermath of disasters.
Yvette draws on long experience to tailor each conversation to the person in front of her. Sessions are aimed at making steady, manageable change. She helps people set goals, try new ways of coping, and check progress over time.
The pace is set by the client, with practical tools introduced when useful. People who value a thoughtful, experienced listener often choose her approach. She emphasizes respect, clear communication, and helping clients find options that fit their lives.
Psychodynamic work online and practical support
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past experiences and long-standing patterns influence how people feel and act today. In online psychodynamic sessions she helps clients notice those patterns, name recurring emotions, and connect current problems to earlier life events so they can make different choices. Her online work is collaborative. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they figure out which methods to try. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and adjustments are made as the relationship develops. Using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives flexibility for different needs. Video lets people read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting brief coaching into a busy day. These options make it easier to attend sessions from varied locations and to keep therapy consistent when life gets busy.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English