Yelitza Chaves, LMHC

Yelitza Chaves is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor in Florida who speaks English and Spanish. She brings 13 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical style that helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and changes in life. She meets people where they are and treats their goals as the starting point for therapy.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered ideas and solution-focused strategies to help people learn new skills, shift unhelpful thoughts, and set small steps toward clearer goals. Sessions are focused on real-life problems and useful tools rather than jargon.

Chaves has worked in community settings, crisis stabilization units, schools, outpatient services, and corporate wellbeing programs. That range of experience informs a practical outlook when dealing with sleep problems, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and relationship or family-of-origin issues.

She also addresses topics like parenting stress, caregiver strain, attachment concerns, midlife transitions, financial worries, and multicultural issues. She emphasizes the client’s existing strengths and supports people in building confidence and motivation to make changes.

People who choose her can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist listens in both English and Spanish. Therapy aims to be goal-oriented, down-to-earth, and tailored to each person’s pace and life demands.

Practical approaches for online care

Yelitza uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep issues, and coping with everyday stress because it focuses on concrete skills and step-by-step changes.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person’s own experience and goals. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting each person to find their own solutions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy elements appear in her work as needed to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has and hasn’t worked before, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process helps adjust techniques over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be handy for quick check-ins or when someone needs shorter, flexible contact. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.