About Waynette
Waynette Speakman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She also supports those facing depression, ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem or body image concerns. Waynette works with people who are grappling with major life changes, caregiving fatigue, or difficult emotions like anger and guilt.
Waynette uses practical, goal-focused methods in sessions. She draws on client-centered ideas to make space for each person's priorities.
How Waynette works
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Her approach includes skills-based tools from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices to help regulate intense emotions. Sessions often mix short-term strategies and longer-term reflections so clients can see steady progress while addressing deeper patterns.
With a 12-year clinical background, Waynette combines talk therapy with coaching-style suggestions. She pays attention to family dynamics, attachment concerns, and issues like abandonment or blended family stress when they matter to the person in front of her. The goal is useful changes people can use day to day.
She offers several ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. People interested can begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits their life.
Waynette lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Waynette works with
The areas below are the ones Waynette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's concerns. The therapist creates space for people to lead the conversation and name their goals, which works well over video or chat. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT sessions online often include homework and brief skill practice between meetings. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can be taught and practiced in short modules during remote sessions.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan to find what feels most useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option when screens are difficult, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection or brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real time where problems actually happen.
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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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