About Waynette
Waynette Speakman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, parenting pressures, or life changes. She also supports those working through depression, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and eating or anger issues.
Waynette brings 12 years of counseling experience to each session. She prefers practical, goal-focused work that helps people make changes now while understanding how the past shaped them.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to blend conversation with hands-on tools you can use between meetings. Her approach draws on client-centered listening paired with cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
This mix helps people manage anxiety, reduce distress, and practice different responses to old patterns. Waynette pays attention to family context and attachment patterns while keeping the work focused on clear objectives. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set realistic steps and track progress.
People often leave sessions with specific tasks or experiments to try in daily life. Her practice accommodates several communication formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. Waynette works with adults on a range of concerns including grief, codependency, body image, and coping after disasters.
She aims to make therapy feel useful and doable from the first meeting.
Approaches you can use online
Waynette commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on listening, reflection, and building the client’s own strengths. This approach helps people feel heard and encourages growth at their own pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and tries practical experiments to change reactions and reduce anxiety.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Waynette will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in regularly to see what is working and adjusts the plan as needed so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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