- Years in practice
- 8
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Zelimna
Zelimna Taveras is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor who offers warm, practical support to parents and individuals. She works in Spanish and English and brings eight years of counseling experience in Florida. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on helping people handle the demands of everyday family life.
She uses attachment-focused methods to look at connection and patterns between caregivers and children. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when strong emotions or relationship conflicts feel overwhelming. Zelimna has worked alongside families and young people facing trauma, grief, parenting struggles, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, body image, and self-esteem.
Her background includes experience with youth at risk and families who have navigated stressful living situations. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Parents can expect clear strategies for handling behavior, improving communication, and building predictable routines.
Zelimna helps people break problems into small steps and practice skills between sessions. She emphasizes collaboration and respect. Clients set the goals and she offers tools to reach them.
For Spanish speakers, she provides counseling in Spanish as well as English and works from a family-centered perspective that keeps daily life and parenting realities in view.
What Zelimna works with
Everything Zelimna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Zelimna helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Approaches Zelimna lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate to online parenting support
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and connection. It looks at how early bonds influence current caregiving and helps parents change patterns that cause distance or confusion. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses to reduce anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches practical emotion regulation and communication skills that can calm intense reactions and improve family interactions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the parent about goals, everyday routines, and what feels most pressing. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy family schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and role play. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for short updates, brief coaching, or when parents need support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, a child's nap time, or an evening routine.
Questions people ask about Zelimna
What concerns can Zelimna help with?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and related family problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends attachment-based work with CBT and DBT skills. Sessions focus on practical strategies, emotion regulation, and improving caregiver-child connection.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of counseling experience working with children, adolescents, families, and adults on trauma, parenting, grief, and related concerns.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) licensed in Florida and practices with that state credential.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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