Iris Yankelevich, LCSW
Iris is the founder of YES Psychotherapy Services — a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, speaker, author, and internationally recognized expert in parenting skills, family relationships, and immigrant family support. For more than 30 years, she has helped individuals, parents, children, adolescents, and families across New York navigate emotional, cultural, and relational challenges.
She has trained and studied internationally, including at NYU, the University of Buenos Aires, and Hebrew University, and has served as a professor at CUNY Lehman College and St. John's University.
Iris was the founder of "School for Parents," a parenting program present in more than 300 NYC public schools since 1993.
YES Psychotherapy Services provided "Project Liberty" to 80 NYC public schools — a program created to mitigate the emotional effects of the September 11 terrorist attack, offering psychological services to parents, teachers, and students from kindergarten to 8th grade.
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Author of Padres de Hoy / Parenting Today. Featured on Univision, Telemundo, and WPAT 93.1 FM.
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