About Elyse
Dr. Elyse Schwartz Myers is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 23 years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, or changes in life.
Parents and individuals concerned about attention difficulties, parenting strain, or relationship patterns will find practical strategies and steady support. Dr. Myers combines short-term skills work with deeper therapy to meet each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses attachment-based and emotion-focused ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and manage strong feelings. Sessions aim to be warm and nonjudgmental.
Dr. Myers listens carefully and helps clients set clear, achievable goals. Conversations focus on what is most pressing and on steps that fit daily life.
Her background includes long experience with mood and anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, addiction, parenting concerns, and identity issues such as LGBT matters. She also addresses related topics like body image, caregiving stress, dissociation, and co-occurring problems. Work with Dr.
Myers can include practical coping skills, communication practice, emotion regulation tools, and coaching around career or life transitions. She helps people build safer relationship patterns and manage overwhelming emotions in ways that make sense for them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people spot repeating patterns, improve communication, and feel more supported in relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, mood swings, and for building routines that help attention and daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Myers will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills training, emotion work, or a mix of both and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when a deeper interaction helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in works better. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, and family routines while still focusing on concrete skills and emotional growth.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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