About Silvia
Silvia Bibas is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, and relationship concerns. Silvia works in both English and Spanish and aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable.
Silvia believes people are the experts on their own lives. She listens for strengths and practical steps clients can use right away.
How Silvia works
Sessions often involve straightforward conversation, problem-solving, and building new habits that fit daily life. Her work covers parenting and family-related concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, and career or motivation challenges. She also supports people dealing with multicultural stress, immigration issues, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue.
Silvia pays attention to how life changes and role shifts affect mood and relationships. Silvia uses a mix of approaches that include client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness, and narrative work. That mix helps tailor sessions to each person's needs and goals.
She prefers short, clear goals that can change as progress is made. Clients can expect a warm, direct style. Silvia helps people name problems, try small changes, and track what works.
Her style is practical but compassionate, aimed at producing workable steps for life outside sessions.
Silvia lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Silvia works with
The areas below are the ones Silvia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy begins by listening closely to each person's story and building sessions around their goals and values. This approach helps when someone wants practical support tailored to their priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-focused work helps people understand patterns in close relationships and shift how they respond to emotional triggers.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's needs and preferences. Goals are revisited over time so techniques can be adjusted if something isn't working.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, and easier scheduling during a busy day. These options make it possible to keep regular momentum while fitting therapy into daily life.
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A practical next step
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