01 · Who Yoanna works with

Yoanna works with stress, Anxiety, relationship issues and parenting issues

Yoanna lists 15 specialisms and 31 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Yoanna chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.

02 · In Yoanna's own words

What Yoanna says about the work

Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.

Finding the right therapist who fits your specific needs is an important step in making the therapeutic process effective. As a therapist, I seek to create an understanding, collaborative, compassionate, and safe environment for my clients. Beside this, I help my clients obtain appropriate tools to address their concerns, balance their emotional experiences, feel stronger and empowered, develop greater self-awareness, and guide them to make new, more productive choices. It takes courage to seek a more fulfilling life and connect with your inner peace to initiate a path of change. I am here to support and empower you on that journey.

I am licensed in Florida with 11 years of professional work experience. I have experience helping clients with stress and anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, parenting issues, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence.

Yoanna Grand, on the BetterHelp listing · read 7 Nov 2026

03 · How Yoanna works

The 7 approaches Yoanna lists, in plain English

These are the clinical methods Yoanna lists. The descriptions are Maker Therapy's, not Yoanna's - a general explanation of what each method is, so the list means something before you have spoken to anybody. They are not a claim about how Yoanna runs a session.

Acceptance and Commitment TherapyACT

Rather than trying to argue a painful thought away, ACT works on loosening its grip and getting on with what matters to you anyway. Sessions spend real time naming your values, then building action around them while difficult feelings are still present.

Cognitive Behavioural TherapyCBT

Structured, present-focused work on the loop between what you think, how you feel and what you then do. Usually means noticing a thought pattern in the room, testing it against evidence, and practising something different between sessions. Among the most heavily researched talking therapies for depression and anxiety.

Dialectical Behaviour TherapyDBT

A structured skills-led adaptation of CBT built around holding two things at once: accepting yourself as you are and working to change. Teaches concrete skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation and relationships. Developed for people whose feelings arrive at overwhelming intensity, and strongest-evidenced there.

Emotionally Focused TherapyEFT

Built for couples and rooted in attachment: the recurring argument is treated as a cycle two people are stuck in rather than as one person's fault. Sessions work to interrupt the cycle and get to what each person is actually asking for underneath it.

Mindfulness-Based TherapyMBCT

Trains attention on what is happening right now - body, breath, the thought as it arrives - so distress can be observed rather than automatically acted on. Strongest evidence is in preventing depression from recurring, and it is usually taught as a practice you keep doing outside the session.

Motivational InterviewingMI

A way of talking about change with somebody who is genuinely in two minds about it. The therapist does not argue for the change; they help you say your own reasons out loud, which is the part that predicts whether it happens. Common around substance use and health behaviour.

Solution-Focused Brief TherapySFBT

Starts from where you want to end up rather than from how you got here. Sessions look for the times the problem is already smaller and work out what is different about those, so the number of sessions tends to be short and the work concrete.

Also listed

• Existential Therapy

04 · What happens next

From this page to a first session

Yoanna practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Yoanna's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.

1. A questionnaire, not a booking form

   BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Yoanna at this point.

2. Naming Yoanna specifically

   BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Yoanna is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Yoanna.

3. If the caseload is full

   You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.

4. The first conversation

   A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.

5. If the fit is wrong

   Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.

05 · Before you commit

3 questions worth asking Yoanna

Built from what Yoanna actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Yoanna's - Yoanna has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.

• “How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”

  Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.

• “How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”

  On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.

• “You offer sessions in English and Spanish. Does the work change depending on which we use?”

  People often reach different material in a first language than in a second. Worth naming before you choose.

06 · Practical details

Credentials and licensing

Credential

LMHC

Licensed in

Florida

Licence

FL LMHC MH14157

Licence number

MH14157

Licence expires

31 Mar 2027

NPI

1699221671

Years in practice

11

Gender

Female

Languages

English, Spanish

International clients

Not accepted

Listed since

17 Oct 2026

07 · Provenance

Where every line on this page came from

Yoanna's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 7 Nov 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.

The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.

Maker Therapy is not BetterHelp, does not take bookings, and has not met Yoanna. There are no reviews or ratings on this page because we have no way to verify one. If you start therapy through a link here, we may be paid a commission - it does not change your price and it does not affect who appears here or in what order.

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