Yolanda is a Las Vegas native. She has seen the city grow and change. She received her Bachelor’s in Human Services from UNLV. She is currently a student working on her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Through her education and training, she has learned that empathy and working collaboratively with individuals, couples and families is vital to the therapeutic relationship. She believes helping those in need become more self-aware and come to understand that they are not alone is essential to the healing process.
She has a special interest in working with anxiety, victims of trauma, individuals who work in traumatic situations and emotional suffering. She believes that it is important for clients to feel that they have a safe space to open up and trust her with their needs and feelings. She strives to help her clients move beyond the stigma that society has placed on seeking mental health.
Using flexible approaches to therapy she believes that clients need the room to get to know their problems and identify what is at the core. As a believer in Existentialism, she knows it is important to work together through the issues and understand the meaning behind them.