About Yaritza
Yaritza Pineiro is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, mood struggles, and substance use concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on clear tools that can be used between sessions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take one manageable step at a time.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals and values.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, is used to help spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, supplies skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Her background includes seven years working in mental health and addiction settings with young adults and adults.
That experience shapes how she supports people facing depression, bipolar mood shifts, anxiety, panic, and substance-related struggles. She also helps with grief, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem and self-harm. In sessions she uses EMDR, when appropriate, to address trauma memories alongside mindfulness practices that build present-moment awareness.
Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when people want help making changes related to drug and alcohol use. Yaritza offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She works from New York and provides care in both English and Spanish.
Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Yaritza commonly blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to keep work focused on the person’s goals while teaching practical tools. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and helping clients set their own priorities. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT offers concrete skills for tolerating distress, regulating intense feelings, and improving communication. These approaches tend to help with mood disorders, panic, relationship struggles, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their day. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat and messaging work for quick check-ins or ongoing notes. These formats give flexibility for busy schedules, work breaks, and different communication preferences, while still allowing licensed professionals to deliver structured therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish