Yolanda Orta Swope

Yolanda Orta Swope is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience helping adults sort through anxiety, depression, anger, and trauma. She begins by listening to each person's story and looks at how personal struggles affect daily life. Many clients find that difficult feelings are tied to relationships with partners, children, parents, or coworkers, and she addresses both sides of those connections.

In sessions she balances individual processing with practical skills work. That can mean naming feelings, tracking patterns in behavior, and trying new ways of responding. She also teaches communication strategies to improve how people relate to others and manage conflict.

Yolanda uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to guide sessions. Those methods are applied in straightforward ways, focused on goals clients bring to therapy. She adapts tools to fit a person’s life and priorities.

She supports people facing a wide range of concerns including parenting challenges, blended family issues, workplace stress, grief, addictions, and divorce and separation. She also helps with relationship struggles like infidelity, intimacy issues, and family of origin patterns.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are based in Texas. Yolanda invites people who want both emotional support and practical change to start a conversation about what would help most.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying and working with emotions that show up in relationships. It helps people understand attachment needs and improve emotional connection with others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where client preferences shape the plan.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the specific session options before booking since formats were not listed in the original profile. Online sessions can make fitting therapy into a busy life easier by reducing travel time and allowing flexible scheduling. They also allow shorter check-ins or phone conversations when that works better for a day with limited bandwidth or a tight break at work. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT exercises and emotion-focused conversations to remote sessions, while keeping the focus on practical steps you can use between meetings.