- English and Spanish
- LGBTQIA+ affirmative
- Practical skill building
About Yolanda
Yolanda Batres-Espinoza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She chose this path after her own early experience with therapy and has built a practice focused on helping people manage life stressors and emotional pain.
Yolanda worked in community mental health in East Los Angeles early in her career. That work centered on providing care to underserved communities and reducing the stigma around seeking help. She has five years of clinical experience supporting people with trauma, depression, anxiety, and related concerns.
She is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Yolanda aims to create a space where people who have felt marginalized can speak openly and be heard. She works with individuals and with people aged 12 and up.
Her approach blends relationship-focused ideas with practical tools. She uses attachment-based ways of understanding patterns, client-centered listening to follow what matters to the person, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work when they fit a person’s goals.
In a typical session she helps people name the problems that cause the most pain and trains simple, usable skills to reduce distress. She often supports people coping with family conflict, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Yolanda believes therapy can give concrete tools so people can feel more in control of their lives.
Yolanda worked in community mental health in East Los Angeles early in her career. That work centered on providing care to underserved communities and reducing the stigma around seeking help. She has five years of clinical experience supporting people with trauma, depression, anxiety, and related concerns.
She is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Yolanda aims to create a space where people who have felt marginalized can speak openly and be heard. She works with individuals and with people aged 12 and up.
Her approach blends relationship-focused ideas with practical tools. She uses attachment-based ways of understanding patterns, client-centered listening to follow what matters to the person, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work when they fit a person’s goals.
In a typical session she helps people name the problems that cause the most pain and trains simple, usable skills to reduce distress. She often supports people coping with family conflict, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Yolanda believes therapy can give concrete tools so people can feel more in control of their lives.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.