- Goal focused
- Bilingual English Spanish
- Evidence informed
About Yazmin
Yazmin Cardena is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on six years of clinical experience across outpatient clinics, crisis work, structured outpatient programs, and private practice.
She helps people facing mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, and also supports those struggling with trauma, complicated grief, and self-harm behaviors. Yazmin works with issues around eating and sleep, substance use, anger, and parenting. Codependency, attachment wounds, and patterns of control or dependence are listed among her additional focus areas.
Her style centers on setting clear, shared goals with clients. She blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, dialectical behavior skills, and a client-centered stance. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and on building skills for everyday life.
Yazmin has worked in group and individual formats and has experience with suicide assessment and risk reduction. She has also supported people through divorce and family-of-origin issues and with life changes tied to immigration or caregiving strain.
To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's calendar. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and international clients are accepted.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take committed action toward those values. It often focuses on learning to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving forward with meaningful choices, which can help with anxiety, depression, and codependency patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing small experiments to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood disorders, sleep and eating concerns, and managing cravings or addictive behaviors.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can help people understand abandonment fears, attachment wounds, and relationship struggles in plain terms, and then practice new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools together and adjusting the plan as progress and life changes occur.
Confirm the offered session formats before booking so you know what options are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or avoiding the need to be on camera for every appointment. Those practical benefits often help people maintain consistency while working toward their goals.
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Experience
6+ years
Credentials
Texas, Oregon
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Yazmin commonly address?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Yazmin emphasizes shared goals and a practical approach. She mixes acceptance-based work, cognitive tools, and emotion-focused techniques to help people change patterns.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has six years of clinical experience across outpatient specialty clinics, crisis intervention, structured outpatient programs, and private practice.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from Texas.
Which languages are supported for therapy?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are accepted; confirm specific scheduling and regional considerations when arranging sessions.
How does payment and cost work?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.