About Zelimna
Zelimna Taveras is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings eight years of counseling experience and speaks both English and Spanish. Zelimna keeps sessions straightforward and practical so parents can focus on next steps rather than jargon.
She often uses attachment-based ideas to understand how relationships shape behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are also part of her toolkit to address mood, anxiety, and behavioral patterns.
Background and approach
These approaches help break down problems into manageable steps and teach skills for handling strong emotions. Zelimna has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She supports those dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and major life transitions.
Her background includes time helping children, adolescents, and families affected by difficult circumstances. In sessions she focuses on practical skills, clearer communication, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where a parent or individual can talk through worries and practice new ways of coping.
Therapy typically blends skill teaching with attention to how early attachments influence current patterns. Zelimna helps people set small, achievable goals and checks in on progress over time. She works with clients to find approaches that fit their daily life and responsibilities.
How attachment work and skill-based therapy translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and structured exercises to notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help manage strong feelings and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the client's life, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to pick skills and strategies that make sense for daily routines and family demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and communication work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit sessions into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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