Meryl Galvan, LMHC

Meryl Galvan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and substance use issues. She is direct but compassionate, and focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life more manageable.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help clients learn new skills and process painful memories. Sessions aim to build concrete coping tools, improve communication, and reduce distressing symptoms.

Meryl emphasizes clear goals and active collaboration. Conversations often include skill practice, problem solving, and tracking progress between meetings. She balances warmth with straightforward guidance so people can leave sessions with next steps.

Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of West Florida. She also holds additional training in health psychology and an EMDR certification. Over a dozen years of experience inform how she structures care and supports change.

Meryl also has experience supervising clinical teams, which adds to her understanding of different treatment approaches and practical care delivery. Her focus is on helping clients gain tools they can use now and in the future to manage mood, relationships, and life transitions.

People who choose her often want focused, skills-based work combined with compassionate support. She aims for steady progress and clearer coping strategies that fit everyday life.

Using evidence-based approaches in online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and stress by teaching concrete skills and short-term experiments.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It is commonly used for trauma-related symptoms and for memories that continue to cause strong reactions.

Meryl treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. Together a person and the therapist will look at problems, goals, and preferences to decide whether CBT, EMDR, DBT skills, or another method fits best. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in often to make sure the work feels useful.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging fits people who prefer writing or need brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on real change.