Dr. Yvette Kumar, DMFT, LMFT

Dr. Yvette Kumar, DMFT, LMFT is the founder and clinical supervisor of Thrivepoint Counseling. She works primarily with couples and individual adults, bringing warmth, authenticity, and a relational approach to therapy. She especially enjoys working with couples, and provides trauma treatment, including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), helping partners strengthen their connection and individuals heal from painful experiences.

Yvette’s work is trauma-informed and grounded in attachment and psychodynamic perspectives. She helps clients explore how their early and developmental experiences shape the patterns showing up in their relationships today — and how to change them. With couples, she focuses on improving communication, navigating conflict, and fostering deeper emotional bonds. She also supports clients through anxiety, depression, stress, and major life transitions, with a special interest in women navigating new life stages.

Her doctoral research focused on clergy wellness, resilience, and relational health — particularly the role of couples and partnerships in sustaining well-being. That work informs her special interest in supporting ministry leaders and their families, and deepens her couples work with partners in every walk of life.

Known for her balance of compassion and directness, Yvette invites clients into deeper self-awareness while offering concrete strategies for change. She integrates cultural humility into her work, honoring each client’s unique context — spiritual, cultural, or personal — and recognizing that the lens through which we view the world shapes how we experience and heal from challenges. Alongside her clinical work, she is passionate about mentoring the next generation of therapists and building a practice where both clients and clinicians can thrive.

Dr. Kumar currently sees clients by telehealth. Free 15-minute consultations are available — book here.