About Zelimna
Zelimna Taveras uses an approach rooted in attachment work and cognitive strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, and the fallout from trauma. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and speaks both English and Spanish. Zelimna brings eight years of clinical experience in Florida to her sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space for conversation.
She focuses on practical skills that people can use between sessions. That includes tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts, and techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to regulate strong emotions.
How Zelimna works
Zelimna also incorporates attachment-based ideas to strengthen relationships and address patterns that cause repeated pain. The therapist has worked with a range of concerns such as depression, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping troubles, anger, and self-esteem problems. She also addresses specific areas like abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness.
Zelimna offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She explains how options may fit different needs and helps clients pick a format that works with their schedule. Her practice is based in Florida and she carries the credential LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
Zelimna aims to work collaboratively to set goals and build skills that make day-to-day life easier.
Zelimna lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Zelimna works with
The areas below are the ones Zelimna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Attachment and skills work for online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate and connect. This approach can help with intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns, and family-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying upsetting thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that can be used during upsetting moments and after crises.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, DBT, or a combination makes the most sense for the situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during relationship and attachment work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick reflections, ongoing check-ins, or when typing out thoughts feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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