About Edith
Edith Lewis-Allen is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. She focuses on everyday struggles like feeling isolated, trouble managing impulses, mood swings, and relationship strain. Edith speaks plain language and aims to make therapy understandable and practical.
She draws on several evidence-based methods to give people useful tools for day-to-day life. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, practicing emotion regulation, and building routines that reduce chaos.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how cultural background and lived experience shape feelings and choices. Edith has six years of clinical experience working with people facing trauma, grief, and sexual assault recovery. She also supports those dealing with process and substance addictions, panic attacks, phobias, and work-related burnout.
Her work emphasizes safety, pacing, and steady progress rather than quick fixes. In sessions she uses a collaborative style that centers the person in front of her. Clients can expect clear explanations, gentle challenge when needed, and hands-on strategies to try between meetings.
Therapy can include talk work, behavioral experiments, and mindfulness practices. Edith accepts international clients and offers flexible session formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She holds a Florida LMHC credential, and charges vary by location and subscription details.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to a schedule that works for them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts without being ruled by them, and then commit to actions that reflect their values; this can help with anxiety, low mood, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain problems like panic, depression, or impulsivity. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for managing emotions, reducing impulsive acts, and improving coping during crises. Edith approaches choice of method as a joint decision. She will talk with clients about their goals and try different techniques to see what fits. The first sessions often involve simple skill-building and checking in to refine the plan together. Online work makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or work between appointments. These options offer flexibility for people who travel, have irregular schedules, or prefer not to be on camera, while still focusing on practical skills and steady progress.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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