Yolanda Batres-Espinoza
Compassionate family-focused therapy
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Yolanda
Yolanda Batres-Espinoza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and offers services in both English and Spanish. She describes herself as LGBTQIA+ affirmative and draws on her own pathway into therapy to guide her work with clients.
Families and parenting concerns are among the areas she lists as a focus. She trained at Fuller Theological Seminary where she earned a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy with an emphasis in Medical Family Therapy.
Background and approach
Early work in community mental health shaped her practice, including providing care in East Los Angeles and working with underserved communities. That background informs her attention to cultural context and practical support. In sessions she uses several approaches, including attachment-based methods, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
She also has training in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and applies trauma-informed thinking when relevant. Her style aims to be collaborative and respectful of each person’s story. Common issues she lists include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include attachment and family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and forgiveness. Yolanda offers sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients may work with her.
Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice this means noticing how connection and trust affect how someone reacts to stress, family conflict, or separation, and then practicing new ways of relating in session.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to test methods and adjust the plan based on goals, needs, and comfort with different techniques.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, phone sessions can be used when video isn't possible, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options provide flexibility so people can keep momentum between sessions and use the tools they learn in everyday situations.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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