About Yelitza
Yelitza Chaves is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in Florida. She focuses on everyday struggles like sleep problems, low self-esteem, and motivation.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful of each person’s story. She draws on 13 years of work across independent practice, community settings, schools, crisis stabilization units, outpatient services, and corporate wellbeing. That mix shapes a practical style that centers the client and uses goal-focused techniques.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, doable steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm. Therapy sessions often include tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Motivational interviewing techniques help people find reasons to stick with changes.
Solution-focused work keeps conversations aimed at real-life improvements and faster progress. Yelitza treats concerns such as grief, parenting strain, relationship difficulties, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with life transitions. She also addresses family-of-origin issues, communication problems, and financial stress when those concerns come up in therapy.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She encourages clients to name strengths and use them toward practical goals. People can expect collaborative planning, short-term strategies, and ongoing adjustments as needs change.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead to build trust and practical goals. Online, that looks like open conversation, reflecting what matters most, and shaping action steps that fit daily life.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-world experiments. In virtual sessions clients learn specific exercises to change patterns of thinking and behavior, such as sleep routines or worry management techniques.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. When used online it can provide breathing and grounding practices, plus step-by-step ways to reduce emotional overwhelm between meetings.
Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try approaches, and adjust plans based on what works. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to emphasize and how fast to move.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or people with lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit short updates, brief coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options help therapy fit into work, family life, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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