LMHC, 6 years of experience
New to Grow
I’m Yonette Eversley, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who supports individuals and couples navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm. My approach is warm, grounded, and collaborative. I help clients slow down, understand their patterns, and build the tools they need to feel more secure, stable, and confident in their daily lives. I specialize in work with women of color, parents, and couples seeking deeper connection, healthier communication, and emotional clarity. My goal is to guide you toward healing in a way that feels real, supportive, and sustainable.
In our first session, we’ll slow down and talk through what’s bringing you to therapy, what you’ve been carrying, and what you hope will feel different. I’ll ask thoughtful questions to understand your history, patterns, and priorities, but there’s no pressure to share more than you’re ready for. Together, we’ll clarify your goals and begin building a plan that feels realistic and supportive. My goal is for you to leave the first session feeling heard, understood, and relieved that you don’t have to navigate everything alone.
My greatest strengths lie in creating a therapeutic environment where clients feel safe, understood, and supported while still being gently challenged. I bring a blend of clinical expertise, cultural awareness, emotional attunement, and real-world practicality to the work. I’m skilled at helping individuals and couples make sense of their emotional patterns, improve communication, strengthen relationships, and navigate life transitions with more confidence and clarity. My clients often share that I help them feel both grounded and empowered, able to understand themselves in new ways while building the tools they need to move forward.
My ideal clients are individuals and couples who are insightful, self-aware, and ready to explore the parts of themselves that are often ignored while caring for everyone else. Many of my clients are women of color, parents, or partners navigating stress, anxiety, communication issues, co-parenting challenges, or rebuilding after relational hurt. They’re often strong and high-functioning on the outside but feel stretched thin, disconnected, or emotionally overwhelmed on the inside. If you’re looking for a therapist who honors your lived experience, understands the emotional weight you carry, and helps you rebuild from a grounded and compassionate place, you’re in the right space.
In my couples work, I help partners slow down, understand their emotional patterns, and communicate in ways that feel safe, clear, and productive. I support couples in exploring their individual needs, attachment wounds, and relational strengths while creating space for honesty, repair, and reconnection. For couples who are parenting together, whether in the same home or co-parenting from separate households, I help clarify expectations, improve communication, and create a more stable and supportive environment for the children involved. Sessions are structured but compassionate, giving partners practical tools to reduce conflict, navigate parenting challenges, and strengthen the foundation of their relationship.
I use narrative therapy to help clients separate themselves from their problems and explore the stories that have shaped their beliefs, relationships, and emotional experiences. Together, we rewrite unhelpful narratives and replace them with ones rooted in strength, identity, and possibility. This approach is especially helpful for clients navigating life transitions, trauma, or deeply embedded negative messages from family or past relationships.
In my strength-based approach, I highlight the resilience, skills, and inner resources clients already possess even when they feel disconnected from them. I help clients identify what’s working, build on their natural abilities, and develop confidence in handling challenges. This method allows clients to experience progress without shame and creates a foundation for long-term emotional and relational growth.
In my CBT work, I help clients understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors so they can begin making intentional, meaningful shifts. Together, we identify unhelpful thinking patterns, explore where they come from, and practice grounding skills, reframing, and coping strategies that reduce anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm. My approach is collaborative and compassionate. I meet clients where they are and give them practical tools they can use in real time to feel more in control, confident, and supported in their healing journey.
I use Gottman-informed strategies to help couples strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional intimacy. Through structured exercises and practical tools, I support partners in understanding their conflict patterns, nurturing friendship within the relationship, and creating shared meaning. My approach blends Gottman principles with emotional attunement and culturally responsive care to help couples reconnect in a meaningful and sustainable way.