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- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting support
- Grief and trauma
About Silvia
Silvia Bibas is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, low self-esteem, and life changes. Silvia also works with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She emphasizes that each person brings strengths and knowledge about their own life. In sessions she treats clients as partners in problem solving and decision making. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and on noticing what already works in daily life.
Silvia uses approaches that match the person and the problem. She draws on client-centered listening to understand concerns, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, emotionally-focused ideas for working with strong feelings, and narrative and mindfulness practices to change how people relate to their stories. These tools get used in clear, concrete ways during sessions.
Her style is straightforward and goal-minded. Silvia helps people set short-term goals, test small changes, and track what helps. She also offers space to process harder emotions like grief, anger, and past hurts.
Silvia speaks English and Spanish and practices in Florida. She works with adults on issues tied to family and parenting, including blended family challenges, divorce-related transitions, and multicultural or immigration-related stressors.
To begin, prospective clients follow the site's matching steps and schedule a first session to see if the fit feels right.
How sessions work
How Silvia's approaches translate to online work
Silvia commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the person's concerns, helping them clarify priorities and decide what to try next. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in behavior to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help people recognize and name strong feelings, and narrative techniques to look at the stories people tell about themselves. These approaches aim to make difficult feelings easier to manage and to open up new ways of responding in relationships. Silvia treats finding the best approach as collaborative; she will discuss options, try things out, and adjust strategies based on the client's goals and preferences.
The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make sessions possible during work breaks or while caring for family. Licensed professionals can adapt these therapeutic methods so sessions focus on things that feel most useful in everyday life.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English, Spanish
Questions
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What kinds of family or parenting issues does she address?
She helps adults with parenting pressure, blended family challenges, family problems, and divorce or separation transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is straightforward and collaborative, using practical steps, goal setting, and check-ins on what changes help between sessions.
How much experience does she have working with these concerns?
She has 20 years of professional experience working with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and related concerns.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is a Florida LMHC and practices in Florida.
Can sessions be held in Spanish?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.