About Ana-Maria
Ana-Maria Medina is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and works with clients from Florida and beyond. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on practical steps that fit each person’s situation.
She begins by listening to what matters most to the client. Together they set clear goals and decide what will be most helpful in everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to the person - sometimes learning new coping skills, sometimes talking through painful events, and sometimes planning next steps after a big change. With seven years of experience, Ana-Maria has supported people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and postpartum depression.
She also addresses issues like infertility stress, fatherhood challenges, immigration-related strain, workplace conflicts, and feelings of isolation. Her approach is practical and respectful. Discussions aim to reduce overwhelm and build routines that help day-to-day functioning.
She checks in about progress and adapts plans if something isn’t working. Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Ana-Maria describes therapy as a collaborative process and encourages clients to voice preferences so treatment fits their life.
If someone wants help with anxiety or making a change, she focuses on steps that can be tried between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ana-Maria often focuses on evidence-based techniques that teach coping skills and help process difficult experiences. One common approach emphasizes building practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress - learning breathing and grounding exercises, breaking problems into smaller steps, and creating daily routines that reduce overwhelm. This approach suits people who want concrete tools to use between sessions.Another approach she uses helps people talk through painful or traumatic events at a pace they can handle. Sessions focus on making sense of what happened, reducing the intensity of distressing memories, and strengthening current coping resources so day-to-day life becomes more manageable. This can be useful for trauma, relationship harm, or sudden life changes.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. She will collaborate with clients to decide which techniques match their goals, values, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan if something isn’t helping. The process is practical and goal-focused rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can fit a busy schedule. These options make it simpler to keep progress going even when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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