About Mildred
Mildred Sellars is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life transitions. She uses a calm, approachable style and focuses on each person’s immediate needs. Mildred aims to make sessions practical and respectful so people can start feeling steadier.
She trained at the University of Central Florida and has worked in many settings, including crisis units, schools, residential programs, and community mental health.
Background and approach
That range gave her experience with severe mental illness, foster care situations, adolescents, and adults facing major life changes. Those backgrounds shape how she listens and responds in session. Mildred blends client-centered care with evidence-informed techniques.
She uses tools from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-based action. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
Mildred focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her and breaks goals into small, doable steps. She also supports people working through parenting strain, relationship trouble, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Based in Florida, Mildred offers a straightforward approach that aims to reduce overwhelm and build practical coping.
Her tone is warm and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on dignity and respect in every meeting.
How Mildred’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Mildred also uses attachment-based ideas to notice how relationship patterns affect stress and communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Mildred will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick approaches and short-term goals and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions or a quieter way to share thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into real routines while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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