About Judy
Judy Couwels is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience in Florida. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and problems with addiction. Judy also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleeping difficulties, and career or life-change stress.
She approaches therapy with the belief that each person knows their own story best. Judy looks for strengths someone already has and uses those strengths to tackle what feels overwhelming.
How Judy works
She encourages small, manageable steps and practical strategies that can be used between sessions. Her work often involves using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that links thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions focus on clear goals, real-life skills, and ways to change unhelpful patterns.
Judy explains ideas plainly and helps clients try out new ways of coping in everyday situations. Judy has a background supporting first responder issues and compassion fatigue along with more common concerns like parenting stress and career strain. Over decades she has helped people rebuild routines, manage mood shifts, and handle difficult transitions.
Her style is steady and supportive. Judy invites honest conversation and practical problem solving. She helps people set realistic goals and follow through so change feels possible.
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What Judy works with
The areas below are the ones Judy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How CBT and online sessions work together
Judy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions, then practice different ways of reacting. CBT is goal oriented and works well for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep problems, and many everyday challenges.The choice of approach is part of the work. Judy will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. She collaborates with each person to adjust strategies and track what helps over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit short updates or quick coping checks between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work when travel or location changes would otherwise interrupt progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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