Feminist Therapists in Boca Raton, FL

My priority is for you to feel valued, understood and hopeful, as we work together to improve the quality of your life. I offer support, motivation and guidance - using techniques that are best for your therapy needs and personality. My experience includes helping clients with depression, anxiety, stress, fears, abuse, low self esteem, relationship and family issues, grief and loss, workplace conflicts, and life transitions. In addition to my work in mental health counseling, I have twenty years of management experience in human resources and employee relations.

You deserve to be happy! If you feel depressed, worried, anxious, overwhelmed, or just unsatisfied with your life, therapy can help. Often people have had one or more experiences in their past that interferes with their ability to be happy in the present, or they just need to learn new skills and behavior patterns to cope with changes in their life. I can help you realize your full potential for happiness. My particular specialties are working with people experiencing trauma or loss, recovering from toxic family environments, struggling with emotion dysregulation, or belonging to marginalized communities.

Do you feel frustrated, anxious and irritable? Do you feel that no matter what you do to improve your wellbeing and/or the quality of your relationships is never enough? Do you want to just feel good already? The key to living a happy successful life is in your relationship with yourself and others. I have helped hundreds of people deal with life's challenges including conflict and relationships issues with partners, children, friends, coworkers etc., with their own internal issues such as anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem, commitment and attachment problems and with life transitions such as parenthood, divorce, and death.

I believe that it is never too late to feel better and improve your quality of life. I have more than 30 years of experience working with adults and adolescents in individual, group, and family counseling, I was trained at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York. I provide tools to help significantly decrease or alleviate feelings and struggles such as depression, anxiety, anger, obsessive compulsive symptoms, relationship, family and marital problems, abuse, addiction, work related difficulties, transitional, and adjustment issues. I strive to improve coping, communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, problem solving skills and growth.

I don't believe therapy has to be hard to be successful, I do believe it's the bravest thing you can do for yourself .With the right therapist, therapy provides an opportunity to collaborate and create real solutions and the life changes you are looking for. You can feel free from emotional pain, be able to cope, find meaning in relationships, increase awareness and heal!

I have ten years of experience working with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, self-esteem, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, women's issues, and perfectionism. At times, the pressure to be perfect and have it all together may leave you feeling disconnected from yourself or the world around you. If you or a loved one are feeling overwhelmed with towering expectations, unhelpful behaviors, and moments of emotional distress, you no longer have to suffer in silence.

I think that we need to be the safest when we are able to be with ourselves. I have also found that life has the ability to make that hard at times and through my own journey of struggling and learning about my mental health, I learned a lot about being human. I don't believe that we are born resilient, I believe it is built into us through getting knocked down and learning different ways of getting back up. This isn't always fun but it's always worth it. I am all about empowering my clients to learn who they are, so they can better love themselves, and be better able to obtain and maintain a happier and healthier life.

I have a decade of experience working with individuals navigating life transitions, mood, anxiety, relationship and body image concerns. My clients often experience hardships due to patterns initially developed to survive and manage marginalization, unmet attachment needs, toxic societal messaging or traumas. I empower clients to recognize and honor their lived experiences, increase tolerance for and acceptance of emotions, increase insight into thoughts and behaviors, and practice new ways of being. This is in service of helping my client’s move through the world with more agency and intentionality.

Dr. Pamela Baker, Licensed Psychologist, earned her Bachelors Degree (B.A.) from the University of Miami with a major in Psychology and double minor in Sociology and French. She went on to earn her Masters Degree (M.S) and Doctoral Degree (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Baker currently works with a diverse population of individuals including children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Baker’s main theoretical orientation is based on Carl Roger’s Humanistic Person-Centered counseling approach.

Do you often feel unfulfilled or dissatisfied with various aspects of your life? Are you motivated to make positive changes, resulting in overall improved mental health? If the above resonates with you, psychotherapy may be a great option! The therapeutic process aids by raising self-awareness and building the confidence needed to affect changes in your life, all while providing the emotional support you need.

Do you feel depressed or anxious? Having trouble in a personal or professional relationship? Have you been feeling stuck or as if you’re repeating the same mistakes? Feeling dread, resentment and emptiness? You may feel you have lost your way and could be unsure of what comes next. You have options, even though they may not always be clear. Therapy can help. As a clinician, I pull from a variety of therapeutic styles including Experiential, Narrative, Acceptance and Commitment, Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

You get sucked into self help videos on Tik-Tok looking for a solution and find yourself more sad, more alone, and feeling empty after hours of scrolling. It's OK I got you! I’m Neslene! A Haitian master-level clinical therapist who specializes in working with young adults who are ready to do deep, meaningful inner work. I am LBGTQ+ affirming, I use evidence-based modalities, and enjoy building real relationships with my clients.

People with eating disorders are often exhausted from constantly thinking about food and their body. Part of you wishes that you could be free from this, but another part may feel scared about recovery. You don't have to continue to feel so trapped. I've been there myself in the past and I can help. Eating disorder therapy can help you to discover food freedom, make peace with your body, and practice self compassion.

In the broadest terms, my practice centers on the idea of helping you to establish or restore greater authenticity--a more authentic voice, space of desire and trajectory of drive/motivation. This can be addressed through more short-term approaches that focus primarily on the present, or a deeper approach that considers and works through past experiences as they inevitably impact the present in ways not always available to consciousness. By uncovering these occluded forces left over from the past and lingering in the present, you will be able to develop broader insight and live more fully with greater intention.

My name is Lidiana Cartolano, and I am a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern at VIVA Psychotherapy in East Boca Raton. I offer therapy in both Portuguese and English to children (6+), adolescents, adults, individuals, and couples. With over 20 years of experience in the mental health field, I bring extensive training in various therapeutic approaches, including Trauma Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused CBT, Imago for Couples Therapy, and Play Therapy. As a Psychologist in Brazil, I have honed my skills to help clients overcome their struggles and enhance their daily functioning and well-being.

I have had great success working with single women, ages 18-40, struggling with unmet desires for marriage, anxiety, relationship difficulties, depression, fear, faith deconstruction, self confidence, overall knowing their true goodness and beauty as a woman. They typically desire to feel more free to be uniquely themselves, without pressures to perform for love and approval.

Depression often feels crushing; as if we are stuck in the past. The pressure of anxiety can feel as if we are stuck in the "what if" of the future. I would like to help you become more present and mindful. We are often told what we are "supposed" to do, but don't know what we want from this life. I help individuals, families, and couples solve longstanding problems, clarify values, and build on strengths to navigate life's challenges more purposefully and effectively. Changing problematic patterns in our lives is critical to increasing contentment. We cannot change our stories, but we can change our relationship to them.

My expertise is helping adults with chronic anxiety and/or depression, and/or grief feel better. My clients are adults who are competent and skilled in many ways, but not in healing their own spiraling fears and emotional pain. With investment in the therapy process, my clients learn to quiet self-criticism, and calm themselves when distressed. They feel more competent in relationship, and they navigate conflicts more skillfully. Daily life is more satisfying. They value themselves and honor what they bring to the world. They feel more hopeful about their future - even if it's not the future they once imagined for themselves.

I strive to create a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship, so that I can meet my clients where they are at and provide space for exploring their concerns. I approach therapy as a collaboration between myself and the client - together we will identify treatment goals and examine pathways for reaching these goals. I attempt to understand my clients on multiple levels, including culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and ability status. I have experience working with adolescents and adults in a number of areas, including: coping with anxiety and depression, life transitions, identity development, grief and loss, and relationship concerns.