About Celena
Celena Benjamin is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 27 years of experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, and problems like insomnia and anger. Her approach aims to identify practical steps clients can use right away.
She listens closely and asks focused questions to keep sessions on track. She begins by learning how a person copes now, what strengths they already have, and where boundaries feel stretched.
Background and approach
From there she helps build skills that support real change in daily life. Sessions often include talking through challenges, practicing new responses, and creating short action plans to test between meetings. Celena uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance-based strategies to reduce the struggle with difficult feelings. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used when emotion regulation or impulsivity is a concern. Her style is interactive and practical.
Expect a balance of listening, guided questioning, and homework tasks designed to move toward specific goals. She tailors each plan to match what a person wants to change and what fits their life. People turn to her for help with grief, trauma, addictions, caregiver stress, obsessive behaviors, panic, and mood problems.
She accepts English-speaking clients and sees people from outside the United States as well.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Celena commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing practical changes to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on a client's goals, preferences, and how they respond to different strategies. Together they set short-term goals and practical steps to measure progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters most. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be an easier fit for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style support, and when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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