Yvette Medina, LCPC

Yvette Medina is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 18 years of experience in mental health. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with bipolar disorder, anger, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. Yvette speaks English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

Yvette draws on several practical approaches to counseling, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, dialectical behavior skills, and client-centered methods. In sessions she keeps the tone straightforward and human. Conversations begin with simple introductions and move into clear, manageable steps for change. She uses concrete tools like skill practice, values-based goals, and communication exercises.

Her background includes work in nonprofit settings focused on addiction treatment, anger management, homelessness, and family reunification. That experience informs her work with people facing complex life situations, co-occurring mental health concerns, and challenges linked to immigration or acculturation. She also notes experience with prenatal and postpartum mood concerns and with people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities.

As a bicultural, Latinx counselor, she often connects over shared cultural experiences and understands how cultural context shapes relationships and expectations. She encourages regular self-care and includes simple, actionable reminders as part of the work together. Yvette supports clients who identify as LGBT and brings practical problem solving to intimacy and family-of-origin patterns.

Outside of her clinical work she enjoys reading, traveling, knitting, baking, photography, painting, and novelas. She uses a light touch of humor in sessions and acknowledges small wins alongside larger progress.

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