Yvette Fort, LCSW

Licensed in New York · 25 years in practice

Yvette Fort uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.

License and registration

LCSW, New York: 097753 · expires April 2027
NPI: 1619102589 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 25
Languages: English

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About Yvette

Yvette Fort uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience and works with each person to create a plan that fits their needs. Yvette speaks plain language and focuses on real steps people can try between sessions.

Across her career she has guided people through trauma and abuse recovery, panic and anxiety, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation.

Background and approach

She also helps people facing workplace stress, career changes, and the loneliness that can come with big life shifts. Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills and build clearer goals. Her style is respectful and direct.

Yvette adapts conversations and interventions to match how someone prefers to work. That might mean practicing breathing and grounding techniques, building a step-by-step plan to face fears, or talking through patterns that cause guilt and shame. People meet with her to sort through communication problems, impulsivity, questions about life purpose, and issues around self-love and women’s concerns.

She combines short-term tools with longer-term growth work so progress can be both immediate and sustained. Yvette centers collaboration. She supports people as they try new approaches and adjusts plans when something isn’t working.

Her goal is to help people feel more capable, calm, and clear about their next steps.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Yvette lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Online support

Evidence-based approaches for online care

Yvette draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, trauma, and stress. One common approach focuses on skills training - teaching practical tools such as breathing, grounding, and steps to manage panic attacks. These techniques help reduce immediate symptoms and give concrete actions to try between sessions.

Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and reducing their hold on daily life. This work involves safe, paced conversations that help people make sense of trauma and painful memories and then practice new ways of responding to triggers.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Yvette collaborates with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adjusts methods as needed. She checks in regularly to see what helps and what needs to change so therapy stays useful and aligned with a person’s life.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter, written check-ins and can be easier to use between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue progress from wherever they are located.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include communication problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, and panic.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is practical and respectful. Sessions often mix short-term coping tools with longer-term planning and skill building.

How much experience does she have?

She has 25 years of professional experience working with people on a range of concerns including trauma, anxiety, and workplace issues.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is licensed as an LCSW in New York and practices with that credential in mind.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the US work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients in the regions that align with her licensing.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or through text-based messaging depending on what fits a person’s needs.

How do payments and scheduling work?

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