How we'll work together.
Evidence-based approaches, shaped around you · ERP, EMDR, DBT, ACT, and more
Approaches I use
Humanistic counseling
Humanistic therapy focuses on your unique strengths and potential, offering a compassionate space to explore your experiences and connect with your authentic self. Together, we’ll work toward deeper self-awareness, growth, and fulfillment.
Trauma-Informed CBT
Trauma-informed CBT helps you understand how past experiences shape the way you think, feel, and react today. At a pace that feels safe, we’ll gently identify and reframe the beliefs trauma left behind, build skills for managing triggers, and help you reconnect with a sense of safety and self-worth.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy helps you step out of autopilot and into the present moment. Together, we’ll practice noticing thoughts, feelings, and body sensations with curiosity instead of judgment, easing anxiety, stress, and rumination so you can respond to life with more calm, steadiness, and choice.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a compassionate, evidence-based approach that helps you explore and heal the different “parts” of yourself. Together, we’ll work to understand these parts, foster self-compassion, and create harmony within, empowering you to feel more balanced and whole.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT is an evidence-based approach that sees emotions as guides rather than problems to fix. Together, we’ll slow down to notice, name, and make sense of what you feel, transforming old, stuck emotional patterns so you can respond to yourself and others with more clarity, compassion, and connection.
Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT is an evidence-based approach designed to help with emotional dysregulation, self-harm, borderline personality disorder, and other challenges like anxiety and impulsivity. It combines acceptance and change strategies to develop skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Together, we’ll work to build tools for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and creating a life aligned with your values.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is an evidence-based approach that helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on accepting difficult emotions and committing to actions aligned with your values. Together, we’ll work to build mindfulness, flexibility, and a meaningful path forward.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
ERP is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety-related concerns. By gradually facing fears and reducing avoidance behaviors, we’ll work together to break the cycle of anxiety and help you regain control, confidence, and peace of mind.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps people heal from trauma, anxiety, and distressing life experiences. Rather than focusing solely on talking about the past, EMDR uses guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess painful memories so they feel less triggering and more manageable. It’s a gentle but powerful approach that allows you to move forward with greater calm, clarity, and self-trust.
Social Justice & Anti-Oppressive Counseling
Your well-being is shaped by more than what happens inside you. This approach recognizes how racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, and other systems of oppression affect mental health. Together, we’ll honor your identities and lived experience, name the forces you’re up against, and build resilience, self-advocacy, and a deeper sense of belonging.
“Yassmin’s strengths as a therapist include unmatched emotional intuition, paired with a deep education in her field. She has connected dots in my life that I never thought would make sense.”
— Client
