Optum Therapists in Largo, FL

Have you found it difficult to move past the pain of yesterday to enjoy your today? At Epic Counseling Services, we are here to help you experience peace in your circumstance. These circumstances may range from common life stressors to major situations that disrupt your day to day functioning at home, school, or work. Sometimes fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma can feel like an emotional paralysis. If you’re reading this you’re probably contemplating taking the first step toward your healing.

Remember when you seemed to have energy to spare? You could juggle it all and then some. But something happened since then that keeps you from living the life you had dreamed about. Now, you are fatigued, stressed out, lack libido and have trouble sleeping. You struggle to go to the store after work or to run an errand, you want a nap instead of adventure. Perhaps you have gone to the doctor, but only get prescribed more and more medication. Your type A drive feels like a lifetime ago, now it's all you can do to make it through the day.

My commitment is to assist you utilizing your own virtues and resilience If suffering of sadness or depression, due to: grief and loss; going trough major life changes that are causing you anxiety and stress; need to increase self-esteem and improve satisfaction and quality of life; need to increase feeling of well-being; need to repair and enhance relationships; raising a child with special needs, which becomes overwhelming and requires specific parenting skills. If you are experiencing any of this, I can partner with you and offer my clinical skills and expertise to enhance your strengths and overcome those difficulties.

My counseling is made available through MinuteClinic, located in CVS HealthHUB locations. You can schedule an appointment with me by calling the number listed in my profile or by visiting www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/services/mental-health-counseling.

I have been helping people for 25+yrs. I am well qualified, credentialed, and have a great deal of experience. I truly enjoy working with my clients. I invest in the therapeutic relationship. I facilitate growth, healing, acceptance and recovery for individuals and couples. I appreciate and value the opportunity and experience of working with you.

Women's issues are my speciality and I have experience in helping women address the following issues: Adult ADD/ADHD, balancing home and work, life transitions, relationship issues, addictions, grief, co-dependency, ACOA, depression, anxiety and recovering from traumatic experiences.

I specialize in adolescents and young adults struggling with on-set of mental illness. I primarily work with those experiencing dissociative symptoms in connection with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and past traumatic experiences. I love to help people build self-esteem, set personal boundaries, work through negative thoughts and cope with trauma responses.

Adult, adolescents, children, and families are welcome to call, inquire about services, and schedule an appointment for evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for the problems in their lives and for the mental health and well-being they seek. I am here to help. I am a licensed psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed school psychologist, and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator offering services to individuals, couples, marriages, families and relationships. I can help with behavioral and emotional problems and with interpersonal problems in your personal life and workplace. *Anger *Borderline

Are you ready to obliterate the internalized junk preventing you from being your authentic self? Are you ready to stop accepting crumbs and embrace the joy of your truth? Let's dismantle the shame, anxiety, and the fear of rejection that sucks your pride! Break out your notepad, grab some tea, and let's settle in to conquer the crap holding you back. I want you to bring yourself, ALL of yourself to session - no topic is TMI or "too much" to be off the table for discussion.

I believe that all people can learn to identify and change thoughts and behaviors in ways that better help them live their ideal lives. I aspire to be a resource you can use to accomplish that goal, using approaches that create a balance between acceptance and change. You'll likely experience me as warm, positive, respectful, informed, practical, and often solution-focused. I work with a wide range of relationship, mental health, and career-related concerns, and I'm eager to help you navigate your path to personal growth.

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ann DePoole. I am an LCSW with my office in Seminole. I have flexible hours and can accommodate special schedules. I accept Tricare, Aetna, Magellan, WellCare, Cigna, Medicaid and Medicare. I also accept private pay. My specialties include mood disorders, co-occuring disorders, trauma and substance abuse. I incorporate my emotional support dog in my sessions, but if a patient is uncomfortable in any way this will be honored. Some of the therapies I use are CBT, motivational interviewing, accelerated resolution therapy, traumatic incident reduction and acceptance and commitment therapy.

Do you find you are repeating unhelpful and hurtful patterns in relationships? Are you struggling with feeling anxious or worried to the point of feeling stuck? Is your past interfering with you being the best version of yourself? We are all often challenged by the stress and demands of life and need guidance to cope better. I can help you find your way. I look forward to the opportunity to join you as you decide to take this step forward to a more balanced, peaceful and fulfilling life.

*Currently accepting new clients* Managing your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can seem like a daunting task. As a Certified Anxiety Specialist, I provide coping skills in order to improve confidence to challenge your fears. By learning ways to overcome your stress, anxiety, depression, and other challenges, you will feel more empowered to live life to its fullest.

I am a professional counselor that truly enjoys what I do immensely. I have worked in varied situations, including residential adolescent treatment, psychiatric hospitalization, DUI outpatient groups and private practice. My background includes volunteering in domestic violence shelters and working with women's issues. I am well suited for individual, couples, families, and group counseling.

"Empowered living by positive change." Dr. Coleman is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in health psychology and behavioral medicine centered on wellness, wholeness, mind-body-spirit integration, and lifestyle balance guided by core values and beliefs. Therapy begins with accepting the reality of “What Is,” then healing/growing (recovery) from the past based on acknowledging and making peace with “What Happened,” and then focusing on the future (discovery) grounded in “What’s Possible” and more importantly “What Matters.” This takes courage… our job is to support you through your healing journey: You don’t have to do it alone.

In my practice, I enjoy working with adolescents, parents and adults looking to identify and find solutions to life's problems. My clients come to me with a goal in mind, whether it big or small, and together we work together to find solutions to the barriers holding them back. I feel passionately about helping our youth become whoever they want to be. Additionally, I enjoy working with survivors of any trauma and those looking to break out of toxic relationships, whether personal, professional or romantic.

It is true what they say, "Life is Journey", and like most journeys at times you may find yourself struggling to overcome obstacles, confused about which direction to go, overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, lost or feeling alone. Therapy can be your co-navigator during these difficult times. For some it is about learning new skills and strategies to cope with stressors, make healthier choices, or manage emotional reactions in a more effective way. For others it may be about overcoming fears, changing dysfunctional behavior patterns, processing loss or healing from acute and chronic physical and emotional traumas.

Angela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 35 years experience in private practice in Pinellas County. She is a Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, Qualified Clinical Social Worker, and in the Academy of Clinical Social Workers. Angela has a warm and engaging style and utilizes evidence based practices which integrate the best research evidence with clinical expertise and client/patient values. Angela works with adolescents and adults (ages 12 and up) and after the first appointment can offer follow-up appointments outside of normal business hours and on Saturdays.

Ms. Morel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with Comprehensive MedPsych Systems (CMPS). She graduated from the University of South Florida with a Masters in Social work. She enjoys working with parents, children, and schools to come to the best result for school-age children and their families. She specializes in treating children with anxiety, behavioral and mood difficulties, helping parents with parent training, and adults in the following areas; anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mood disorders including bipolar disorder, depression, and trauma. She provides individual, couples, and family therapy sessions.

There are times in our lives when things just don't seem to go according to plan. I believe everyone has the capacity to change the way they think and feel and to live the life they've dreamed of no matter what may be going on around us! Creating change requires support and experience on the part of the therapist. Through a process of empathy and understanding, I assist clients in creating positive changes in their lives. I provide a hope-inducing environment, which allows clients to feel comfortable as we create a customized plan to go from "feeling stuck" toward achieving personal goals and making positive, lasting changes.