Yvette Medina, LCPC

Yvette Medina is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 18 years of experience in mental health. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and a wide range of other life challenges. She speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

Medina draws on straightforward, person-centered methods. Sessions begin with plain conversation to build trust. She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to address thoughts, emotions, and behavior.

Her background includes work at a nonprofit focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and mental health supports. That work exposed her to major depression, bipolar and personality disorders, complex trauma, prenatal and postpartum depression, and immigration and acculturation issues.

She also brings experience supporting people with intellectual and developmental differences, caregiving stress, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, body image and illness-related distress, and the practical strains that come with life transitions. She notes advocacy for LGBTQ individuals as part of her practice history.

In sessions she combines conversational listening with practical skills and short-term strategies. Clients can expect check-ins, problem-solving, and a focus on small, achievable steps. She mentions using motivational techniques and brief solution-focused work alongside longer-term therapeutic tools.

Outside clinical work she reads, travels, knits, bakes, paints, and watches novelas. She tends to bring lightness and a sense of humor into sessions when appropriate, and encourages regular self-care as part of meeting goals.

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