About Yelitza
Yelitza Chaves is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor who offers therapy in English and Spanish. She has a calm, down-to-earth style and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and improve self-esteem. Many people come to her feeling stuck by grief, parenting pressures, career stress, or the daily challenges of ADHD and life changes.
She draws on 13 years of experience across independent practice, community settings, schools, crisis stabilization units, outpatient services, and corporate wellbeing programs.
Background and approach
That background influences a hands-on approach that values what each person already knows about their life. Sessions emphasize clear goals and usable skills rather than abstract theory. Her work often blends client-centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
That mix helps people notice patterns, set realistic steps, and find motivation to try new behaviors. She also uses Solution-Focused ideas to keep conversations goal-oriented and time-efficient. Yelitza describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps clients identify strengths, practice coping tools, and adjust strategies when needed. People who want straightforward guidance, practical tools, and emotional support tend to fit well with her style. She serves adults in Florida and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The practice works with common life concerns like relationship strain, sleep problems, career decisions, caregiver stress, multicultural issues, and compassion fatigue.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding each person's perspective. In practice she offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where the client's concerns guide the work and choices are respected.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online sessions can include structured exercises, homework tasks, and brief check-ins to track progress between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. When relevant she teaches concrete skills like grounding, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation that clients can practice in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans if something isn’t working. That teamwork helps find practical strategies that fit a client's routine.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill coaching, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, reflection, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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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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