About Edgar
Edgar Pena is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety and other common concerns. He focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and build confidence so daily life feels easier. He speaks English and Spanish and offers sessions online for greater flexibility.
He listens with a straightforward, respectful style. Sessions aim to be a place to speak openly about what’s hardest right now.
Background and approach
He helps people sort through thoughts and feelings without judgment and works with each person at their own pace. Pena uses approaches that break down problems into manageable steps. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
He also uses client-centered methods to follow the person’s priorities and pace their work together. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns or strong emotions are central. Those methods help name and calm intense feelings so choices feel clearer.
Together these approaches guide practical changes you can try between sessions. His practice supports people facing addictions, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, grief, bipolar concerns, and life transitions. Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels.
Approaches in online sessions and how they help
Edgar Pena uses a mix of Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-centered methods focus on listening and following the person’s priorities so conversations stay relevant to what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain anxiety or low mood and offers simple experiments to change them.He may also draw on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when strong emotions or relationship patterns are central. That approach helps name feelings and understand how they shape interactions, which can reduce reactivity and make choices clearer. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences rather than applying one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typed conversation feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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