About Yolanda
Yolanda Orta Swope is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 11 years of clinical work based in Texas. She meets adults who come with anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, or struggles with attention and focus, and helps them name what’s happening and find practical ways forward. She offers care in English and Spanish and uses structured, straightforward methods to address day-to-day problems.
Yolanda pays attention to how personal difficulties connect with close relationships.
Background and approach
Many clients find that stress, grief, or mood shifts affect their partnerships and parenting. She helps people sort out what they feel and how those feelings show up around loved ones and work life. In sessions she balances emotional processing with skill building.
That means talking through painful memories and practicing tools that reduce overwhelm. Sessions can include goal setting, behavioral steps, and communication skills tailored to each person’s life. Her approach blends evidence-informed techniques with a focus on emotions and practical solutions.
She uses cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking, emotionally-focused work to tend to attachment and closeness, and solution-focused strategies to set achievable goals. Clients leave sessions with concrete steps they can try between meetings. Yolanda’s background helps when people face major life changes such as divorce, blended family challenges, grief, or career shifts.
She also supports parents managing the strain of raising children and adults navigating workplace stress. Her style is direct, compassionate, and aimed at real-world results.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people and partners recognize and express core emotions that shape connection. It focuses on understanding attachment needs and repairing patterns that reduce closeness, which can ease relationship and intimacy concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new behaviors, and assigning small between-session tasks to change daily routines and mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress or new issues emerge.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, quick coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to maintain regular contact for steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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