Yovani Hernandez
Compassionate social worker for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW-CP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Yovani
Yovani Hernandez is a licensed social worker with ten years of clinical experience in North Carolina. She holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential and the Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) credential. Yovani focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, and stress and also addresses topics such as parenting and family issues.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens closely and helps people name what feels overwhelming.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize learning practical skills and improving day-to-day functioning rather than jargon or long lectures. Yovani uses a mix of evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, and from acceptance-based practices to clarify values and manageable action steps.
She also brings attachment-focused ideas to understand relationship patterns. Therapy with Yovani often involves building coping tools for sleep, anger, and stress. She helps clients work on communication, self-esteem, and navigating life transitions.
Conversations include goal setting, skill practice, and checking what actually helps between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started is a brief process that begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match personal values. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It often helps with stress, sleep problems, and mood symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss your goals and try methods that fit your situation. Together you’ll watch what helps and adjust the plan over time to find the best mix of techniques.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work well for those on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging provide shorter, frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family and work responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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