About Yelitza
Yelitza Chaves is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She works in English and Spanish and brings 13 years of experience practicing in Florida. Yelitza focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life and respects each person's own perspective and strengths.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions often start by identifying what matters most right now and what a small next step might look like.
How Yelitza works
She uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thinking, build coping skills, and strengthen motivation to reach personal goals. Yelitza has worked across independent practice, community settings, crisis stabilization, schools, outpatient services, and corporate wellbeing. That variety shaped a flexible style that adapts to different needs and situations.
She often draws on client-centered work alongside cognitive strategies and brief solution-focused methods. Many clients seek her help for parenting stress, sleeping problems, career worries, compassion fatigue, and relationship issues. Additional focuses include caregiving strain, attachment and family of origin concerns, financial stress, and multicultural issues.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, aging and geriatric issues, and midlife transitions. Therapy can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit schedules. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to therapist availability.
Yelitza lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Yelitza works with
The areas below are the ones Yelitza selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and online options that fit daily life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding your perspective, and building on strengths. It helps when you need someone to follow your lead and support your own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to choose and adapt methods that match goals, preferences, and practical needs. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels realistic and relevant to everyday life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats increase flexibility and make it possible to continue work between appointments.
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