Yazmin Cardena, LPC

Yazmin Cardena is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who brings six years of clinical experience across multiple care settings. She has worked in outpatient specialty clinics, crisis intervention, structured outpatient programs, and private practice, providing support to individuals and groups across the lifespan. Her training and experience include work with depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, behavioral and discipline challenges, self-harm behavior, complicated grief reactions, chronic pain and chronic illness, anger and stress management, trauma and abuse, and family and relationship concerns.

She has conducted suicide assessment and risk reduction, facilitated group psychotherapy, and supported couples through conflict including civil divorce. Yazmin also addresses self-image and self-esteem issues, including work with bariatric patients and those pursuing healthy lifestyle change. In addition to these focus areas, her practice includes stress, addictions, parenting, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and a range of attachment and relationship difficulties such as abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. Yazmin provides services in English and Spanish and accepts international clients.

Her approach centers on collaboratively setting therapy goals with each person she sees. She recognizes that seeking help can feel difficult at first and works alongside clients to identify practical steps and build skills to navigate life changes and recovery.