About Yeneisy
Yeneisy Fernandez is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and low self-esteem. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 13 years of experience to supportive, practical therapy. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients feel heard and find clearer paths forward.
Yeneisy centers sessions on each person’s strengths and goals. She believes clients are the experts on their own stories and uses that perspective to guide work together.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens, reflects, and helps people try small changes that build confidence and momentum. Her approach draws from several well-known methods. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based strategies to reduce struggle with painful feelings.
Attachment-focused work and client-centered listening help address relationship and family patterns that keep people stuck. Yeneisy has supported people facing a wide range of concerns, including abandonment issues, blended family stress, chronic illness or pain, caregiver burden, body image, and communication problems. She also works with people coping with major life events like cancer or aging-related transitions.
Sessions are offered through flexible online formats to fit different schedules. Prospective clients can expect a collaborative, respectful approach that focuses on practical steps and long-term resilience.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions people can take to move toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationship patterns affect trust, closeness, and conflict in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may combine skills training, values-focused work, and relationship-focused conversations depending on what a person wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and health demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish