About Zelimna
Zelimna Taveras is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor who provides care in Florida. She speaks English and Spanish and brings eight years of counseling experience to her work. Her practice addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns among other issues.
She uses approaches that focus on how early relationships shape current patterns. That helps when attachment, abandonment, or family problems are part of someone's stress. She also applies practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Zelimna pays attention to family dynamics, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She supports people facing identity and relationship questions, including LGBT concerns and intimacy-related issues.
Eating, sleeping, anger, self-esteem, and body image are also within her scope. Her background includes work with people affected by trauma, grief, and major life changes. She draws on motivational interviewing techniques to build motivation for change.
The Gottman Method informs her work on communication and commitment issues in close relationships. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Zelimna emphasizes practical tools and steady support so people can manage symptoms and move forward at their own pace.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current behavior and feelings. In a few sessions this approach helps identify recurring dynamics and guides changes in how people relate to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or depression going. It includes practical exercises and homework people can do between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance when life gets overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit. Over time the plan is adjusted based on what helps most, mixing methods when that makes sense.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to keep appointments around work, school, or parenting responsibilities and to maintain steady progress despite a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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