About Edith
Edith Lewis-Allen is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. She focuses on everyday problems like panic, low self-esteem, and feeling isolated. Edith uses straightforward tools to help clients cope and move forward.
Her work often centers on women's issues and survivors of sexual assault. Edith keeps sessions practical and personal. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Therapy often includes learning new coping skills, practicing calming techniques, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. She uses methods that fit each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her background includes six years of clinical experience and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, shown as LMHC.
That experience informs how she supports people facing mood disorders, panic attacks, and process addictions like gambling or exercise. She also addresses multicultural concerns and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. Edith combines several evidence-based approaches in session.
Clients may work with cognitive behavioral tools to shift thinking, mindfulness and acceptance practices to handle distress, and emotion-focused ideas to improve relationships. She frames therapy as collaborative and practical. Sessions may address trauma and post-traumatic stress, substance use concerns, impulsivity, and self-harm thoughts with care and focus on safety.
People looking for help with career strain, compassion fatigue, or coping with major life changes can also find concrete strategies. Edith aims to help clients build resilience and clearer next steps.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Edith often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT emphasizes values-based action, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation challenges.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT provides concrete strategies for panic attacks, phobias, mood disorders, and many anxiety-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Edith collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays practical and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching, and text sessions can fit shorter breaks in a busy day. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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