Yolanda Pender, LPC

Yolanda Pender is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who supports people navigating difficult seasons in relationships, family life, and personal growth. She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, anger, self-esteem, parenting, career challenges, and coping with major life changes, with additional focus on issues like communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family dynamics, infidelity, family of origin concerns, and women’s issues.

With 18 years of counseling experience, Yolanda has worked with both civilian and military communities and brings a steady, compassionate presence to individual work, couples counseling, marriage mentoring, family support, trauma and grief care, social services, and personal development. She recognizes that the past cannot be changed, but she helps clients make sense of how it continues to shape current patterns, emotions, and decisions, so they can move toward meaningful resolution in the present.

Her style is collaborative and interactive, grounded in respect and honest, supportive conversation. Yolanda tailors therapy to each client’s goals and needs, integrating humanistic principles with approaches such as Interpersonal Therapy, cognitive and cognitive-behavioral techniques, and psychodynamic insights. Together, clients and therapist focus on identifying practical strategies and tools that support growth, well-being, resilience, and renewed hope.