Dr. Yvonne Love, Psychologist
Dr. Yvonne Love helps teens, adults, and seniors in California build emotional resilience, improve relationships, and regain a sense of balance when life feels overwhelming. Practicing at LifeStance Health, she provides compassionate, evidence-based mental health care through individual therapy and couples therapy, supporting patients across California with concerns ranging from everyday stress to complex psychological conditions. A core passion of Dr. Love’s work is helping individuals heal from trauma and navigate women’s issues, including recovery from sexual assault, partner abuse, and life transitions that affect identity, safety, and self-worth. She brings a steady, validating presence to this work, helping patients process difficult experiences, reduce trauma-related symptoms, and move forward with greater confidence and clarity. Her approach emphasizes empowerment, emotional regulation, and meaningful change. Dr. Love also specializes in treating anxiety, depression, and PTSD/trauma, with additional experience addressing ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief, sleep disorders, substance use concerns, and health-related psychological challenges. She works with teens, adults, and seniors, and has particular experience supporting First Responders, Military/Veterans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Her therapeutic style integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and couples and marital counseling, while also offering additional evidence-based interventions as appropriate. She is bilingual and provides care in Spanish. Outside of her clinical work, Dr. Love enjoys yoga, road cycling, music, theatre, painting, logic games, reading, scrapbooking, and photography—creative outlets that reflect her belief in balance, curiosity, and lifelong growth.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Individual Therapy: Ages 15-75+
- Couples Therapy: Ages 18-75+
Areas of Focus
Individual Therapy
Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.
- Anxiety
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- PMS & PMDD
- Sexual trauma
- Stress management
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Aging
- Alcohol use
- Attention & focus
- Bipolar Disorder
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Chronic pain-related issues
- Depression/feeling down
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Drug/substance use
- Emotional abuse
- End-of-life challenges
- First responder stress
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hallucinations
- Immigration/cultural status
- Intense mood changes
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Military & veteran
- Premarital counseling
- Psychosis/issues with reality
- Retirement
- Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
- School avoidance
- Self-esteem
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Social skills & communication
- Stress from ongoing health issues
- Unusual thoughts or beliefs
Couples Therapy
Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.
- General relationship issues
- Marital stress or divorce
- Premarital counseling
- Sex & intimacy issues
- Caregiving
- Family conflict
- Grief & loss
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Kaiser Permanente (SoCal)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
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Northwestern State University
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Alliant International University
New patient?
Book Appointment OnlineFrequently Asked
Questions
Please use our online form to schedule an appointment with Dr. Yvonne Love. You can also call 858-279-1223 to have someone assist you.
Dr. Yvonne Love generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 858-279-1223 to find out Dr. Yvonne Love's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Dr. Yvonne Love:
- Aetna
- Blue Shield of California (D)
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Central Health Plan of California
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Devoted Health Plan
- Elevance Health (Anthem BC) (D)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- Health Net (MHN)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente (NorCal)
- Kaiser Permanente (SoCal)
- Magellan (D)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 858-279-1223 to see how we can help.
Dr. Yvonne Love is a Psychologist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Dr. Yvonne Love works at:
Yes, Dr. Yvonne Love does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Dr. Yvonne Love is currently offering in-office visits at the following location:
- English
- Spanish