About Yolanda
Yolanda Townes welcomes people who are facing painful life moments and want practical help to move forward. She focuses on trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and managing anger. She also helps with career concerns and the stress of major life changes.
Yolanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience in Alabama. Her work centers on building a genuine connection and treating each person with respect. Sessions often begin by listening closely to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
From there she helps set clear, realistic goals and keeps the focus on steps that feel manageable. <br:Yolanda uses a mix of approaches to match the situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation grounded in the client’s own values and choices.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with stress and emotional regulation. She also brings psychodynamic ideas into longer-term work to understand repeating patterns. Motivational Interviewing can be used when clients want help finding the energy to make a change.
Throughout, the emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People most often come to her for help with isolation, social anxiety, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. She aims to create a calm, respectful space to talk through difficult feelings and practice new ways of coping.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and honoring each person’s perspective. It helps people who want a therapist to follow their lead and support their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear strategies to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides whether more skills-based CBT, reflective client-centered work, or a mix is used.
Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep momentum between appointments. It also makes shorter check-ins or appointment times during a work break more practical. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to the online setting so clients can keep making progress from day to day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English