Trauma and PTSD therapists & psychiatrists in Clearwater, FL

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and founder of Roots Healing Alliance, where I help individuals and couples do deeper, meaningful healing work. I specialize in trauma, anxiety, and relationship patterns, using a mix of insight-based and body-centered approaches. My style is warm, direct, and real. You won’t get a “therapist mask,” but someone who’s genuinely in it with you. I’ll support you while also gently challenging you to grow. My goal is to help you better understand yourself and create lasting, authentic change.

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• In Person or Video Counseling for teens & adults.
• This therapist is INCLUSIVE and WELCOMING to ALL.

Symptoms of anxiety and depression can leave us feeling stuck and alone. They can stop us from enjoying day-to-day activities, living the life we want and may have a negative impact on our relationships. Thoughts and feelings related to anxiety and depression often make us feel like we aren't good enough, worried, afraid and stuck. We may experience physical symptoms of anxiety (pounding heart, difficulty breathing, etc.) that can leave us feeling terrified and wondering, "What is going on with me?". Constantly feeling tense, exhausted, stressed, worried and disconnected does not have to be your normal.

Imagine how it would feel to be free from anxiety and depression. I will teach you the brain science behind anxiety. You can become an expert in greatly reducing and managing symptoms of anxiety and depression. You will learn how to become a master in silencing that inner critic.

• In person or video therapy provided for teens or adults for multiple issues.
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• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A.R.T.) available for in person sessions only.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I have spent the last eight years working with “at-risk” children and adolescents, referred by the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Diversion programs. I currently work with the Genesis Women’s Clinic assisting antepartum and postpartum moms suffering from Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder, the Family Care Clinic providing Behavioral Therapy to families and adults, and the Pediatric Clinic at TGH Healthpark.

I received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Fort Lewis College, a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Social Science from the University of South Florida, and a Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from USF. My therapeutic approach is influenced by my clinical training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.

I am a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Art Therapist working with children, adolescents, and adults. I completed my Bachelor’s in Psychology with a Minor in Art and earned my Master of Science in Art Therapy from Florida State University.

I am passionate about helping others overcome challenges and understand the inner workings of their minds, empowering them to create positive changes in their lives. I’ve completed training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Advocacy Core Training.

I grew up in central Florida and earned my Bachelor of Science in Family and Child Sciences from Florida State University, followed by a Master of Arts in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from the University of South Florida. During graduate school, I gained experience working in a treatment facility and with college students at USF, advocating for children’s educational needs while they balanced mental health treatment. This exposure led to my interest in behavior-focused therapy, particularly in using exposure techniques.

I’ve worked with children, teens, and adults dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, depression, Tourette's, and disordered eating.

I have worked with clients from ages 3 through 80 and with individuals, couples, and families. With that breadth of experience, very little shocks or surprises me, and I am able to develop an individualized approach for each client, combining therapy modalities that play to my strengths as a counselor and that are helpful for the people I’m working with.

Three principles shape all the counseling I do:

• Counseling should be efficient. Counseling has significant costs in time and money. I think the benefits far outweigh the costs but when I can give you the benefits while helping you save on the costs I will do that. So I choose approaches to counseling (like EMDR and EFT) that generally work more quickly. That being said, I don’t want to you to feel better for three to six months and then need counseling again because we only worked on symptom relief and didn’t bring healing to the underlying causes. That doesn’t seem very efficient to me. So my goal is to provide as long-lasting and complete help as possible in as little time as possible.
• The client is always in charge. People are complex and come with years of history that I can never know all of. I know a lot of things but you will always be the one who decides what you want to get out of counseling, how we work towards that goal, whether or not what we’re doing seems to be working, and when we’re done.
• Change and health happen through relationships. The work we do in counseling will touch on how your relationships impact your health. No matter what you come in for, there are always relational implications of change and relational factors that contribute to whatever it is that you came to counseling to change. Change can only happen in counseling because of our relationship. It’s my responsibility to make our relationship a place where you feel heard and accepted.

Welcome to Liberated Mind Counseling! I am deeply committed to partnering with growth minded creatives to make a lasting transformation into their happiest most fulfilled selves so they can finally experience a life of joy, meaning, creativity, and well-being. If you are looking for a counselor who can guide you to address: feeling stuck in situations, anxiety, overthinking, relationships and creative projects in your life, hopelessness after countless attempts to make lasting changes, disconnectedness from your life and the people around you or helplessness in the face of big, chaotic, or unmanageable emotions You've come to the right place.

Together we will be utilizing mindfulness and other cutting edge therapeutic techniques to change your relationship to yourself, your thoughts, and your emotions at the neurological level while practicing, opening, and strengthening your capacity to experience joy, compassion, forgiveness, and love in a way that is systematic and scientific.

It would be my pleasure to partner with you to achieve a life of joy, meaning, creativity, and well-being. Please contact me today for a free 30 minute phone consultation or visit me on my website. 727-451-9281

I have been in the mental health field since 2016 and it is truly my passion! I have inpatient/outpatient hospital experience working with those who have severe mental illness, crisis stabilization, individuals and loved ones struggling with adjustment to illness, and anticipatory grief.

I enjoy working with adults who are neurodivergent, the LGBTQIA+ community, infertility/loss/birthing trauma, adult children of immigrants (1st/2nd gen), cultural adjustments/assimilation, and trauma. You could say I'm a liberation therapist.