Yvonne Ricketts
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Family, Grief, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Yvonne
Yvonne Ricketts is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who draws on 12 years of clinical experience to support people through major life transitions and difficult emotions.
Background and approach
She trained in counseling psychology and ministry, and has worked in community agencies where she gained hands-on experience with a range of therapeutic approaches. Yvonne integrates evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered and narrative tools to tailor care to each person's needs.
Her style is caring, empathic, and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on meeting clients where they are and honoring cultural differences. She brings specific experience addressing mood disorders, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Yvonne also works with issues related to aging, communication problems, immigration, and post-traumatic stress. Yvonne offers both live and remote formats and accepts international clients.
She aims to collaborate with clients to set concrete goals, build practical skills, and strengthen resilience through approaches that match their preferences and circumstances.
Approaches that guide online work
Yvonne uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be useful for problems such as depression, anxiety, and stress. She also draws on client-centered therapy, offering empathic listening and unconditional positive regard to create a collaborative space for exploring personal meaning and emotional concerns. Motivational interviewing complements these methods by helping people clarify their values and strengthen motivation for change, especially around habits and addictions.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and she works together with each client to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. That collaborative orientation means techniques can be adjusted over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy with Yvonne is offered through a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life, maintain continuity across locations, and choose the interaction style that feels most comfortable for addressing specific concerns.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English