Yvette Givand

Yvette Givand is a skilled Clinical Social Worker and Therapist (LISW-S) with a deep commitment to guiding her clients through their personal challenges. She believes in the profound importance of relationships for enhancing the quality of life, emphasizing that the quality of one's relationship with oneself directly impacts relationships with others. Yvette aims to help her clients embrace their authentic selves while fostering positive connections with people, environments, and experiences around them. By utilizing an integrated method approach that features therapies such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Art Therapy, and Family Systems therapy, she empowers individuals to build resilient coping tools for managing life’s stressors and creating positive outcomes. Yvette's authentic ability to connect with clients enables her to provide effective interventions that enhance emotional and social competency skills, while addressing each individual's unique challenges. She is particularly passionate about working with children facing self-regulation issues, teens with mood disorders, families in crisis, and individuals overcoming trauma. Her extensive experience serving at-risk and marginalized populations has enriched her recognition of human potential and worth, significantly informing her empathetic counseling approach.