About Amada
Amada Tro is a licensed therapist in Florida with 30 years of clinical experience. She holds two licenses - Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) - and offers care in both English and Spanish. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders, and also helps with ADHD, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, and relationship concerns.
Sessions address practical worries like parenting strain, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue as well as symptoms tied to bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive issues.
Background and approach
Her style centers on listening first and helping people name their strengths. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person and builds from there. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and to try different behaviors that can make daily life easier.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help calm the body and reduce reactivity when stress or panic arise. Treatment plans are shaped together with each person, aiming for small, usable steps that fit day-to-day life. Amada works with adults who want a straightforward, compassionate approach.
She supports people through transitions like divorce, aging concerns, isolation, and recovery from sexual assault or domestic violence. Her long experience includes helping those facing intellectual or developmental differences and complex medical or caregiving situations.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist works to understand each person's story and to build on their strengths and priorities, which helps when facing stress, relationship strain, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses concrete steps to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, panic, depression, ADHD-related struggles with focus and impulsivity, and sleep problems.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the body during panic or high stress. These practices are paired with talk work to help people handle overwhelming moments more effectively.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and adapt methods as needs change. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize listening, CBT skills, or mindfulness exercises at different stages.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people keep a conversation going between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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