About Yolanda
Yolanda Aguinaga is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 32 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and ADHD. She values each person's strengths and works alongside them to find realistic ways forward.
Yolanda believes people know their own stories and brings a respectful, supportive presence to sessions. She encourages small, doable steps that build confidence over time. Her style is direct but warm, aimed at helping clients feel heard and capable.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses approaches that match the problem at hand. That can mean learning new thinking and behavior skills, clarifying values, or strengthening emotional awareness. She also helps people work through relationship strain, career stress, body image concerns, and complicated grief.
Her background includes long-term clinical work in a range of settings across Pennsylvania. Over three decades she has worked with people facing trauma, chronic stress, caregiving strain, and life transitions. That experience informs practical techniques she uses in talk and skills practice.
Yolanda offers services in English and Spanish and accepts clients from outside the United States. She works with people who want steady support to manage emotions, change habits, or cope with major life changes. Her goal is to help people build tools they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed actions that match those values. It helps people who feel stuck or overwhelmed reconnect with what matters and build small, steady habits.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing addictive patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they adjust methods so work in therapy fits the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for shorter updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and apply skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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