Dr. Yvonne Foster
Practical, direct therapy for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Yvonne
Dr. Yvonne Foster uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people make real changes. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness to address problems like anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, and parenting stress.
Dr. Foster is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with 25 years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania. She speaks plainly, is direct, and focuses on clear goals so progress is visible.
Her sessions are interactive and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
She helps clients identify specific steps to change patterns that get in the way of daily life. She explains options plainly and uses behavioral strategies and thought-focused exercises when they are useful. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and increase emotional awareness.
Dr. Foster has worked with issues related to the autism spectrum and with medical conditions that affect mental health. She also brings a decade of experience in college disability services which informs her practical approach to problem solving and accommodations.
That background supports collaborative planning around work, study, and caregiving pressures. Clients can expect honest feedback and a clear sense of whether the therapeutic fit is right. When techniques aren’t helping, she will steer the work in a different direction.
The goal is to build skills that let people spend less time in therapy and more time living the life they want. She practices in Pennsylvania and offers sessions in English. Dr.
Foster accepts international clients and uses a mix of in-session conversation and hands-on exercises to support change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping the client set their own goals. It is useful when you want a supportive space to reflect and decide what matters most in your family or personal life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, and addiction-related habits by giving clear exercises to try between sessions. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase emotional balance, which can help with stress, grief, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t helping, she adjusts the plan so therapy stays useful and focused on measurable steps.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to meet from home or while traveling, and allow follow-up or brief check-ins between longer meetings. The variety supports flexible scheduling and steady progress without requiring travel.
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
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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