About Yvette
Yvette Melendez is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, low self-esteem, ADHD concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Her approach is calm and steady.
She focuses on listening first and then working together on what feels most useful. Clients can expect a space where they can say difficult things without judgment. Yvette encourages clear, straightforward conversation about feelings, behaviors, and daily struggles.
Background and approach
She uses this dialogue to uncover patterns that keep problems repeating and to find practical ways to try something different. Her work draws on psychodynamic therapy to look at how past experiences affect current choices and relationships. That can help with long-standing problems like grief, compulsive thoughts, or recurring conflicts at home or work.
She also helps with life transitions, caregiving stress, and issues that come from cultural or immigration-related stressors. Sessions include talking through what’s happening now and connecting it to earlier life events when that is helpful. Yvette offers coaching-style support for building routines, improving sleep, and managing impulses tied to addictions or ADHD.
She aims to help people gain clearer self-understanding and more steady daily habits. Yvette practices in New York as an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker. With her experience, she often blends longer-term reflection with practical steps so clients leave sessions with something to try between meetings.
Psychodynamic work and online therapy options
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past relationships and early experiences shape present feelings and choices. It helps people understand repeating patterns in relationships, grief reactions, compulsive behaviors, or long-term anxiety by tracing how earlier events influence current responses.Yvette uses that reflective approach alongside practical coaching. She helps clients connect insights to everyday routines like sleep, work habits, or strategies for managing attention and impulsivity. Choosing the right mix of reflection and practical tools is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to find the best fit based on their goals, symptoms, and what feels most helpful in session.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can suit brief updates, short coaching exchanges, or clients who prefer writing over speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and reach care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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