About Yeneisy
Yeneisy Fernandez is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, family conflict, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 13 years of experience to sessions in Florida and with international clients. She works from a practical, person-centered stance.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and build on existing strengths. She treats people as experts in their own lives and helps them find clearer direction and greater confidence.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on body-awareness techniques alongside talk therapy. That means paying attention to bodily sensations as well as thoughts and feelings. This can help when stress and old patterns get stuck in the body and hinder change.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice painful thoughts without getting driven by them. Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationship patterns and connection concerns.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative. She supports small, achievable steps that fit each person's life. People leave with concrete tools to manage symptoms, improve communication, and build healthier routines.
Yeneisy aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and guided toward their goals. The focus is on practical change and steady progress, paced to each person's needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Somatic-informed work pays attention to body sensations alongside thoughts and emotions. It can help when stress and tension feel stuck in the body and when people want practical ways to notice and shift physical patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and learning to live alongside difficult thoughts rather than being pushed around by them, which can ease ongoing anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions and can help people improve communication and closeness in adult relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs, adjusting as work progresses. This is a team effort and the plan changes if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity while traveling, or connect from different locations. They allow the same therapeutic tools to be practiced and reinforced between meetings, with options for shorter check-ins or full sessions depending on what the person needs.
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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