About Ilysa
Ilysa Strassler is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports people navigating relationship and intimacy difficulties, self-esteem struggles, and LGBT concerns. Her work also includes helping those in kink and alternative sex communities and people coping with panic attacks and gender dysphoria.
She uses practical conversation and structured planning to meet each person's needs. Sessions are tailored to the issue at hand and paced to what the person can handle.
Background and approach
Ilysa aims to listen without judgment and to offer clear steps people can try between meetings. With six years of clinical experience, she draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. That experience includes addressing workplace stress, fertility-related strain, commitment and communication problems, and challenges around sexuality and self-love.
She is familiar with the concerns of people in polyamorous relationships and those who are hearing impaired. Ilysa frames therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to identify goals and then breaks those goals into small, achievable steps.
Progress is reviewed and plans are adjusted as needed. Her approach is respectful and compassionate. People who choose to work with her can expect supportive dialogue, practical strategies, and a focus on real-world improvements.
Approaches that fit online care
Evidence-based cognitive and behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. These methods help reduce anxiety, manage panic symptoms, and change patterns that fuel stress.Relationship-focused work centers on communication and problem solving. It helps people improve intimacy, resolve commitment concerns, and handle conflicts more directly in day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is a partnership. The therapist will review your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. You and the therapist decide together which methods make the most sense for your situation.
Online therapy with this clinician offers multiple ways to connect. Video calls let you see facial cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions and flexible communication when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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