Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Yoshonna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Years in practice
- 21
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Yoshonna
Yoshonna Sanders is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on common and complex concerns like depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, and anger. Yoshonna offers a calm, compassionate presence and aims to make talking about difficult topics easier for each person she meets.
Her work often centers on family dynamics and communication patterns. She helps people untangle attachment issues, abandonment wounds, and problems that come from family of origin.
Background and approach
She also assists with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. Yoshonna uses straightforward, practical strategies in sessions. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's lead, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behaviors, and Narrative Therapy to reframe painful stories.
Mindfulness and motivational styles are woven in when they help with coping and decision making. People come to her for help with mood disorders, panic, trauma recovery, addiction, sleep and eating struggles, ADHD, and career or life changes. She emphasizes building resilience and reconnecting with what matters most to each person.
Yoshonna practices in Louisiana and works in English. Her style is warm and culturally aware, aiming to make therapy feel respectful and practical. To begin, readers should use the site's Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.
What Yoshonna works with
Everything Yoshonna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Yoshonna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
Approaches Yoshonna lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that fit online care and your goals
Yoshonna commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities so they feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help with stress, anxiety, sleep, and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work together with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps. Decisions about which approach to use are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and support continuity of care during life transitions. It also allows using practices like CBT worksheets, narrative exercises, and guided mindfulness in ways that fit daily routines without promising any specific format.
Questions people ask about Yoshonna
What concerns does she help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, anger, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is compassionate, culturally aware, and practical. She follows the client's lead while offering concrete tools for coping and change.
What kind of experience does the therapist bring?
She has 21 years of clinical experience supporting people through mood disorders, trauma recovery, family issues, and major life transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LCSW licensed in Louisiana and practices there.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are sessions scheduled and what about cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.