About Tovah
Tovah Allen is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her approach is warm and respectful and aims to make starting therapy easier for someone who is unsure.
She listens first and tailors the conversation to each person's situation. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings, not just talk.
How Tovah works
Tovah often blends straightforward problem-solving with mindfulness practices to help calm intense feelings and improve focus. CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, shows people how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and she uses that to shift unhelpful patterns. Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track progress in concrete ways.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change when motivation feels low. Tovah has worked with a wide range of life challenges, including grief, trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, and the strain of serious illness. She also supports people dealing with family and communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Conversations are collaborative and practical. She helps clients identify small changes that lead to steadier moods and clearer decisions. When you begin, the plan is adjusted to fit your needs and pace.
Tovah lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Tovah works with
The areas below are the ones Tovah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| 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 focuses on listening and adapting to each person's needs, helping them feel heard and guiding conversations toward the goals they choose. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy blends simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional grounding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tovah will discuss options and try methods collaboratively, adjusting techniques based on what helps you meet your goals and what feels most useful in your daily life.
Online sessions can fit into busy schedules. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations when travel is hard. Phone sessions work well if video would use too much data or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint helps keep momentum between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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