Yelitza Chaves, LMHC

About me

Hello. I am a bilingual (English/Spanish) licensed psychotherapist in Florida with 14 years of professional work experience. I've been working in the private and community sectors, crisis stabilization units, schools, outpatient services and corporate wellbeing. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, coping with grief and loss, parenting issues, along with motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. I truly believe that you are the expert on your own story and that you already have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming challenges. I commend you because it takes courage to seek out help and start a search for a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am as human as you are, and I am here to support & empower you in that journey while helping you discover a satisfactory way that leads to happiness using an Integrative Approach in an intentional and consistent manner without any type of judgement. I use CBT, motivational interviewing, and Solution Focus Brief Therapy and I am always mastering new theoretical approaches that are ethical and evidenced-based.

Professional experience

Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Sleeping disorders, Career difficulties, Depression, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Communication problems, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Divorce and separation, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Multicultural concerns, Self-love, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues

Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy

License information

FL LMHC MH20809