About Raquel
Raquel Aspuru is an LCSW who brings a straightforward, compassionate approach to therapy. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to meet people where they are. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, focusing on respectful, nonjudgmental care.
Raquel helps people manage stress and anxiety using clear tools and steady support. She also addresses relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Clients may look to her for help with sleep, eating concerns, parenting challenges, career transitions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her work is rooted in client-centered care and practical techniques. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to build skills for daily life. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding the energy to make changes.
Raquel draws on five years of clinical experience in Florida. As an LCSW she aims to create a calm space to talk through problems and set realistic goals. She values kindness, respect, and acceptance in every session.
Sessions may involve setting small steps, practicing new ways of thinking, and building routines for better sleep and mood. Raquel encourages active collaboration so people leave with tools they can use between meetings.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters, and helps clients set their own pace for change. This approach fits well when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes short exercises and experiments to try between sessions, so it works well over video calls or messaging where homework can be shared and reviewed.
Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. Those short practices are easy to guide during a phone check-in or through text reminders when a client wants quick grounding tools.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test what helps most, adjust methods, and set small goals together. That shared decision-making makes it easier to try different techniques and see what fits the person's life.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suits short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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