Yvette Medina

Yvette Medina is a bicultural Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Illinois who brings more than 17 years of experience in the mental health field, a sense of humor, and a genuine commitment to helping people. She welcomes those who take the first step toward care and applauds the decision to seek support, recognizing that meeting a new therapist can feel challenging at first. After brief introductions, she aims to create a comfortable rapport so clients can begin exploring their strengths and goals.

She holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential (LCPC), license number 180.013630, which authorizes her to provide professional clinical counseling. Yvette works for a nonprofit agency that focuses on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, family reunification, and mental health concerns. Her clinical areas of expertise include major depressive disorder, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, family and relationship conflicts, life transitions, and complex trauma and abuse, as well as prenatal and postpartum depression. She also has experience supporting individuals with anxiety, intellectual and developmental disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders, and immigration and acculturation challenges. Yvette is a proud advocate for members of the LGBTQ community.

As a Latinex and bicultural counselor, she draws on shared cultural experiences to connect with clients. She is trained in a variety of approaches and adapts methods to meet each person’s needs, including person-centered therapy, motivational interviewing, brief solution-focused counseling, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, dialectical behavior therapy principles, and life coaching techniques, along with more classical counseling approaches when appropriate.

Outside of her clinical work she enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking and sampling baked goods, photography (she may occasionally share a relevant photo), painting, and watching soap operas (novelas). Yvette emphasizes the importance of regular self-care and incorporates self-care practices into therapeutic goals. She is currently available for appointments on weekends only and looks forward to supporting clients as an advocate and collaborator in their healing and growth.