Yvette Dehn, MD, LCPC

Yvette Dehn is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and boosts in self-esteem and motivation. Yvette aims to make therapy straightforward and understandable for people who are feeling overwhelmed.

Her work often addresses relationship strains, family conflict, and parenting concerns. Yvette uses practical tools to help people handle big life changes and build daily habits that support emotional stability. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, grief linked to cancer, and the complex feelings around adoption and attachment.

Yvette combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening and emotionally-focused ideas. She brings in mindfulness, gratitude practices, and conversations about meaning to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

She identifies the strengths people already carry and helps them apply those strengths to new ways of coping. Her background as an MD and as an LCPC informs a practical, health-aware approach to emotional struggles. Yvette makes space for each person's values and faith, while keeping work focused on real-life changes.

Sessions tend to be calm and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small, repeatable steps. People leave with clear strategies to use between meetings and a plan for next steps tailored to their situation.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Yvette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and building daily routines that support mood and focus. She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, which means the therapist listens closely and follows the person's pace while offering empathy and reflection. That approach helps people feel heard and understood as they work through decisions and emotions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Yvette collaborates with each person to shape sessions around their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made so the approach fits the person's life and values.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while working around busy schedules.