About Yeni
Yeni Hercules is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 12 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
Yeni offers straightforward, practical support for relationship and intimacy-related issues as well as parenting and career strains. She uses clear, goal-focused methods to help clients feel more in control.
Sessions often include techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness tools are used to build calm and reduce reactivity in daily life.
For relationship concerns she draws on principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Solution-focused strategies help people set short-term goals and make steady progress between sessions.
Hypnotherapy is offered as an additional option for specific issues when appropriate. Yeni aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things.
She pays attention to patterns such as attachment, codependency, and control issues that affect relationships and self-esteem. Problems like grief, caregiver stress, immigration-related pressures, and compassion fatigue are also part of her work.
Sessions are available in English and Spanish. Yeni supports practical problem solving for sleep, addiction, coping with life changes, and emotional overwhelm.
She encourages small steps that build confidence and reduce daily strain.
Approaches that translate to online care
Yeni often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT sessions focus on specific skills and practical homework that can be done between appointments. The Gottman Method provides concrete communication and conflict tools aimed at reducing arguments and rebuilding trust in relationships; exercises and skill practice adapt well to video or phone work.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that match the issue at hand, and adjust techniques based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill coaching and role plays. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick reflections, coaching between sessions, and tracking progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish