Yoshonna Sanders
Experienced LCSW focusing on family connections
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Yoshonna
Yoshonna Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people through difficult life chapters. She practices in Louisiana and focuses on emotional struggles that often connect to family life and relationships. Her work centers on listening carefully and helping clients find practical ways forward.
Yoshonna takes a straightforward, compassionate approach. Sessions often look at family dynamics, communication patterns, and attachment issues that affect daily life.
Background and approach
She helps people process trauma, grief, and painful events like abandonment or infidelity without using jargon. She uses practical methods to address mood and anxiety symptoms, panic, and disruptions in sleep or eating. She also supports clients struggling with addictions, bipolar challenges, or the emotional fallout from disasters.
Work might include building coping skills for stress, improving self-esteem, or managing compassion fatigue. Therapy with her often involves telling and reworking personal stories, practicing breathing and mindfulness skills, and identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Motivational interviewing techniques can help when people are trying to change habits or make tough decisions.
Yoshonna aims to create an affirming space where people can speak honestly about identity and relationship concerns, including LGBT-related topics. She approaches each person with cultural awareness and respect for their background and beliefs. Clients leave sessions with concrete next steps they can try between meetings.
She helps people set realistic goals and track small changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps clients find their own answers, which is useful for relationship and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, panic, mood swings, and unhelpful behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, eating, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Yoshonna will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean mixing listening-focused work, skill-building from CBT, and mindfulness exercises over several sessions.
Confirm the session formats before booking so you know what to expect. Many people appreciate online therapy because it can make scheduling easier and fit therapy into a busy day. Online sessions can reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and make it simpler to maintain continuity through life changes. Discussing practical needs at the first meeting helps shape a plan that fits each person's routine and goals.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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