About Silvia
Silvia Bibas is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and shifts in life roles. Silvia works with concerns like self-esteem, parenting challenges, career questions, grief, and trauma.
She speaks English and Spanish and aims for straightforward, respectful support. Silvia believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths to therapy. Sessions focus on building practical skills and clearer choices.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused work to address how thoughts and emotions affect behavior. Her style is warm and client-centered. She listens first, then helps set small, doable goals.
That can mean learning new coping skills, improving communication, or reducing anxiety symptoms with stepwise practice. Silvia also uses mindfulness and narrative work to help people shift unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness exercises can reduce stress and ground attention.
Narrative work helps people reframe difficult experiences and find new meaning. People come for help with relationship and intimacy concerns, family stress, life transitions, and burnout or compassion fatigue. She also supports those navigating cultural or immigration challenges and the emotional effects of serious illness.
Getting started begins with a short intake and a plan that fits each person’s life. Silvia emphasizes practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and workable for busy lives.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Silvia often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage anxious thoughts and change unhelpful behaviors. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person’s pace so goals reflect what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for reducing anxiety and improving mood.She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy to address relationship and intimacy concerns. That approach helps people notice and express emotions more clearly, which can reduce conflict and build stronger connections. Together, these approaches are used flexibly so the therapy plan reflects a client’s goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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