- Client-centered
- CBT and mindfulness
- Goal focused
About Yonna
Yonna Swingholm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of psychotherapy experience. She holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Walla Walla University and lists LCSW and LICSW as her credentials. Her work emphasizes a strong therapeutic relationship and practical steps to help people feel better about themselves and their lives.
She blends straightforward cognitive-behavioral methods with a client-centered outlook. That means she helps people identify goals, notice unhelpful thoughts, and try different ways of responding. She also draws on mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to support change and movement toward goals.
Yonna has substantial experience working with military communities and has spent time living and working with Native Tribes in North America. She also trains on integrating holistic approaches into health care and is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. This background informs a flexible approach that respects a person’s values and life story.
In sessions she focuses on clear, shared goals. She discusses what is working and what needs to change, then adjusts methods to fit each person. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career shifts, and self esteem struggles.
People who prefer practical exercises, brief skill practice, and talk-based problem solving may find her approach helpful. She works from California and conducts therapy in English. To begin, clients use the site’s matching process to schedule according to therapist availability.
She blends straightforward cognitive-behavioral methods with a client-centered outlook. That means she helps people identify goals, notice unhelpful thoughts, and try different ways of responding. She also draws on mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to support change and movement toward goals.
Yonna has substantial experience working with military communities and has spent time living and working with Native Tribes in North America. She also trains on integrating holistic approaches into health care and is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. This background informs a flexible approach that respects a person’s values and life story.
In sessions she focuses on clear, shared goals. She discusses what is working and what needs to change, then adjusts methods to fit each person. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career shifts, and self esteem struggles.
People who prefer practical exercises, brief skill practice, and talk-based problem solving may find her approach helpful. She works from California and conducts therapy in English. To begin, clients use the site’s matching process to schedule according to therapist availability.