Emotionally Focused Therapists in Orlando, FL
I emphasize techniques from cognitive behavioral, emotionally focused, IFS, narrative, solution focused, and somatic therapies.
Are you having a difficult time healing from trauma, abuse, or toxic relationships? Are you overwhelmed with grief, anxiety, or relationship problems? I will support you in navigating many of the challenges life can bring, and empower you to move past feeling stuck and towards the life you want and deserve. I can help you to break free from unhealthy patterns and relationships and find joy, peace, and calm in your life again. I offer both individual and couples/marriage counseling as well as yoga & meditation instruction and therapy. I will ensure that you feel seen, heard, respected, and supported when you need it most.
I emphasize techniques from cognitive behavioral, emotionally focused, IFS, narrative, solution focused, and somatic therapies.
Are you having a difficult time healing from trauma, abuse, or toxic relationships? Are you overwhelmed with grief, anxiety, or relationship problems? I will support you in navigating many of the challenges life can bring, and empower you to move past feeling stuck and towards the life you want and deserve. I can help you to break free from unhealthy patterns and relationships and find joy, peace, and calm in your life again. I offer both individual and couples/marriage counseling as well as yoga & meditation instruction and therapy. I will ensure that you feel seen, heard, respected, and supported when you need it most.
Treating Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Bipolar, Neurodivergent challenges and troubled relationships. Together we will unstuck life by finding the balance you are looking for. You deserve to be heard. Life can be overwhelming. It is time to take care of YOU. I am glad you are taking the first steps to feel better and resolve the concerns that have been bothering you and keeping you away from living the meaningful happier life you want to live. Perhaps you've been struggling with depression, anxiety, grief or troubled family relationships? Maybe you've just need help to get back on track and talk, let's start to rebuild you back up!
Treating Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Bipolar, Neurodivergent challenges and troubled relationships. Together we will unstuck life by finding the balance you are looking for. You deserve to be heard. Life can be overwhelming. It is time to take care of YOU. I am glad you are taking the first steps to feel better and resolve the concerns that have been bothering you and keeping you away from living the meaningful happier life you want to live. Perhaps you've been struggling with depression, anxiety, grief or troubled family relationships? Maybe you've just need help to get back on track and talk, let's start to rebuild you back up!
I’m a trauma-informed Marriage & Family Therapist with training in sex education and liberation studies. I offer a warm, open-minded space to explore your story, relationships, identity, and desires without judgment. I believe healing happens in connection—when you feel seen, safe, and free to be your full self. Together, we’ll untangle old patterns, honor your boundaries, and build a more intentional, liberated life that feels authentically yours.
I’m a trauma-informed Marriage & Family Therapist with training in sex education and liberation studies. I offer a warm, open-minded space to explore your story, relationships, identity, and desires without judgment. I believe healing happens in connection—when you feel seen, safe, and free to be your full self. Together, we’ll untangle old patterns, honor your boundaries, and build a more intentional, liberated life that feels authentically yours.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who would love to hear your story and help you achieve your goals. In my work as a counselor I enjoy helping children, adolescent and adult clients with a wide range of concerns including anxiety and stress management, coping skills, depression, relationship issues, parenting issues, life changes, grief and loss, and self esteem.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who would love to hear your story and help you achieve your goals. In my work as a counselor I enjoy helping children, adolescent and adult clients with a wide range of concerns including anxiety and stress management, coping skills, depression, relationship issues, parenting issues, life changes, grief and loss, and self esteem.
With over eight years of expertise and experience, I am dedicated to advancing mental health education and awareness. Educating clients about mental health is a crucial aspect of my work. By helping clients understand their conditions, I aim to empower them, reduce stigma, and motivate adherence to treatment plans and healthy lifestyle changes. Expertise in psychotherapy, crisis intervention, evidenced-based treatments, and trauma-informed practices.
With over eight years of expertise and experience, I am dedicated to advancing mental health education and awareness. Educating clients about mental health is a crucial aspect of my work. By helping clients understand their conditions, I aim to empower them, reduce stigma, and motivate adherence to treatment plans and healthy lifestyle changes. Expertise in psychotherapy, crisis intervention, evidenced-based treatments, and trauma-informed practices.
Carina Rawan Elkadi
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, MA, RMHCI
2 Endorsed
Orlando, FL 32819
Did you have to grow up too fast? Was it your job to keep your home peaceful and safe? You’ve cared for others and ignored your own needs for so long that you don’t understand yourself anymore.
You are not alone. When we ignore and suppress our feelings, we're left paralyzed an confused - but it doesn't have to be that way. It’s not too late. You can learn to connect with yourself and save your relationships.
Did you have to grow up too fast? Was it your job to keep your home peaceful and safe? You’ve cared for others and ignored your own needs for so long that you don’t understand yourself anymore.
You are not alone. When we ignore and suppress our feelings, we're left paralyzed an confused - but it doesn't have to be that way. It’s not too late. You can learn to connect with yourself and save your relationships.
Everyone deserves to be heard, guided and supported through life challenges and transitions, with over 12 years of experience in the mental health field I am ready to walk beside you. Counting with experience both inpatient and outpatient settings, helping individuals navigate life's challenges with compassion, empathy, and realistic strategies. Therapy is not just for those who are struggling with mental health issues. Sometimes we all need someone to talk to who will listen without judgment. If you're looking to explore your thoughts, gain clarity, or simply have a supportive, open space to be yourself.
Everyone deserves to be heard, guided and supported through life challenges and transitions, with over 12 years of experience in the mental health field I am ready to walk beside you. Counting with experience both inpatient and outpatient settings, helping individuals navigate life's challenges with compassion, empathy, and realistic strategies. Therapy is not just for those who are struggling with mental health issues. Sometimes we all need someone to talk to who will listen without judgment. If you're looking to explore your thoughts, gain clarity, or simply have a supportive, open space to be yourself.
Depressed? Anxious? Family issues or phase of life concerns? I would like for you to come to a place where you will find warmth and acceptance in a friendly atmosphere. You will enter an atmosphere without judgment. Here is a place where you can be genuine and feel at home. Let's work on becoming a better you! Let's make that first step together. My passion is making the family and relationships whole. I specialize in premarital, marital and divorce counseling along with family therapy.
Depressed? Anxious? Family issues or phase of life concerns? I would like for you to come to a place where you will find warmth and acceptance in a friendly atmosphere. You will enter an atmosphere without judgment. Here is a place where you can be genuine and feel at home. Let's work on becoming a better you! Let's make that first step together. My passion is making the family and relationships whole. I specialize in premarital, marital and divorce counseling along with family therapy.
Katherine often utilizes Internal Family Systems therapy, but also integrates various other approaches including attachment theory, cognitive behavior therapy, solutions focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and others.
Katherine recognizes that one of the bravest things anyone can do is reach out for help. She is passionate about creating a safe space in the counseling room to support her clients in personal growth and healing as they strive to become their best self.
Emphasizing the need to embrace health and wholeness in all areas of life, Katherine seeks to create an encouraging, collaborative, and supportive space for clients to engage mind, body, spirit, and family in therapeutic healing.
Katherine is passionate about working with couples and young adults and has experience working with adolescents through middle adulthood.
Katherine often utilizes Internal Family Systems therapy, but also integrates various other approaches including attachment theory, cognitive behavior therapy, solutions focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and others.
Katherine recognizes that one of the bravest things anyone can do is reach out for help. She is passionate about creating a safe space in the counseling room to support her clients in personal growth and healing as they strive to become their best self.
Emphasizing the need to embrace health and wholeness in all areas of life, Katherine seeks to create an encouraging, collaborative, and supportive space for clients to engage mind, body, spirit, and family in therapeutic healing.
Katherine is passionate about working with couples and young adults and has experience working with adolescents through middle adulthood.
My approach blends emotionally focused therapy, Gottman Method, and practical relational work.
On the outside, life looks handled. Inside, you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself. You carry a lot, manage a lot, and rarely feel like you can fully rest. Even with insight, the same patterns keep repeating.
You want relief, clarity, and space to breathe again. You want to stop overthinking, second-guessing yourself, and feeling responsible for everything. More than anything, you want things to feel steadier and more sustainable, not like you’re constantly pushing just to keep up.
My approach blends emotionally focused therapy, Gottman Method, and practical relational work.
On the outside, life looks handled. Inside, you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself. You carry a lot, manage a lot, and rarely feel like you can fully rest. Even with insight, the same patterns keep repeating.
You want relief, clarity, and space to breathe again. You want to stop overthinking, second-guessing yourself, and feeling responsible for everything. More than anything, you want things to feel steadier and more sustainable, not like you’re constantly pushing just to keep up.
Do you ever find yourself struggling to balance life’s challenges in today’s fast-paced world? Is your teenager’s behavior becoming overwhelming or difficult to manage? You don’t have to navigate these moments alone. Whether you’re looking to make time for yourself or seeking support for your teen, I’m here to help.
Do you ever find yourself struggling to balance life’s challenges in today’s fast-paced world? Is your teenager’s behavior becoming overwhelming or difficult to manage? You don’t have to navigate these moments alone. Whether you’re looking to make time for yourself or seeking support for your teen, I’m here to help.
You may be a woman moving through menopause, hormonal changes, mood shifts, body changes, and the impact these life transitions have on self‑esteem, an older adult facing aging, grief, loss, adjusting to retirement, loneliness, caregiving stress, or a couple struggling with communication, disconnection, or ongoing relationship issues. You may also be carrying trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, chronic pain, emotional overwhelm, or stress from major life transitions. If you’re an immigrant seeking belonging or navigating immigration stress, you’re not alone. If you’ve been in survival mode, you may be ready for support.
You may be a woman moving through menopause, hormonal changes, mood shifts, body changes, and the impact these life transitions have on self‑esteem, an older adult facing aging, grief, loss, adjusting to retirement, loneliness, caregiving stress, or a couple struggling with communication, disconnection, or ongoing relationship issues. You may also be carrying trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, chronic pain, emotional overwhelm, or stress from major life transitions. If you’re an immigrant seeking belonging or navigating immigration stress, you’re not alone. If you’ve been in survival mode, you may be ready for support.
As a counselor who believes that there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" approach to providing effective counselling, I work to utilize all the tools in my tool kit to curate a client centered approach that works best with each persons individual situation, perception, belief system and relationship.
As a counselor who believes that there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" approach to providing effective counselling, I work to utilize all the tools in my tool kit to curate a client centered approach that works best with each persons individual situation, perception, belief system and relationship.
With over eight years of expertise and experience, I am dedicated to advancing mental health education and awareness. Educating clients about mental health is a crucial aspect of my work. By helping clients understand their conditions, I aim to empower them, reduce stigma, and motivate adherence to treatment plans and healthy lifestyle changes. Expertise in psychotherapy, crisis intervention, evidenced-based treatments, and trauma-informed practices. Throughout the treatment process, I provide continuous support and guidance.
With over eight years of expertise and experience, I am dedicated to advancing mental health education and awareness. Educating clients about mental health is a crucial aspect of my work. By helping clients understand their conditions, I aim to empower them, reduce stigma, and motivate adherence to treatment plans and healthy lifestyle changes. Expertise in psychotherapy, crisis intervention, evidenced-based treatments, and trauma-informed practices. Throughout the treatment process, I provide continuous support and guidance.
My approach includes existential, somatic, humanistic, psychoanalytic, ACT, IFS, and EFT for finding your truest self-expression.
I believe therapy to be sacred work, thus I approach each interaction with reverence. Transformation is always possible through mindful presence and the meditative practice of acceptance of reality as it is. There are various changes that occur when people are able to bring unconscious emotions into awareness, which does happen naturally but is amplified during non-ordinary states of consciousness. When we deepen the awareness of how our mind operates—its patterns, tendencies, weak spots, and vulnerabilities—we are able to connect with our deepest desires and most creative expressions of who we are and who we are capable of becoming
My approach includes existential, somatic, humanistic, psychoanalytic, ACT, IFS, and EFT for finding your truest self-expression.
I believe therapy to be sacred work, thus I approach each interaction with reverence. Transformation is always possible through mindful presence and the meditative practice of acceptance of reality as it is. There are various changes that occur when people are able to bring unconscious emotions into awareness, which does happen naturally but is amplified during non-ordinary states of consciousness. When we deepen the awareness of how our mind operates—its patterns, tendencies, weak spots, and vulnerabilities—we are able to connect with our deepest desires and most creative expressions of who we are and who we are capable of becoming
I offer a healing space that centers the lived experiences of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and relationships navigating complex dynamics. I know that identity, culture, and community shape our mental health journeys-and I honor that in my work.
Whether you're carrying generational wounds, facing relationship challenges, questioning your sense of self, or simply trying to find peace in a chaotic world, I walk alongside you with compassion and care.
I offer a healing space that centers the lived experiences of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and relationships navigating complex dynamics. I know that identity, culture, and community shape our mental health journeys-and I honor that in my work.
Whether you're carrying generational wounds, facing relationship challenges, questioning your sense of self, or simply trying to find peace in a chaotic world, I walk alongside you with compassion and care.
Hello! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. I received my Masters from the University of Central Florida and have been practicing since 2022. I help people who find themselves struggling to connect with themself and others, whether they're young and in school, midlife and married, or retired and adjusting to changes. We work together to rebuild those connections.
Hello! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. I received my Masters from the University of Central Florida and have been practicing since 2022. I help people who find themselves struggling to connect with themself and others, whether they're young and in school, midlife and married, or retired and adjusting to changes. We work together to rebuild those connections.
Hi, I’m Ale. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or stuck in patterns shaped by past experiences. You want to re-connect with joy and shift your days from surviving to thriving. I support folks navigating trauma, emotional overwhelm, neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ identity, relationship concerns, and more. I integrate evidence-based interventions including EMDR therapy, parts work, somatic techniques, and other evidence-based approaches tailored to best support your needs.
Hi, I’m Ale. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or stuck in patterns shaped by past experiences. You want to re-connect with joy and shift your days from surviving to thriving. I support folks navigating trauma, emotional overwhelm, neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ identity, relationship concerns, and more. I integrate evidence-based interventions including EMDR therapy, parts work, somatic techniques, and other evidence-based approaches tailored to best support your needs.
Therapy is not a one-size-fits-all approach. I meet individuals of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds with a focus on identifying what makes them unique. Using my holistic approach, I provide a safe and healing environment for clients to share their stories so that we can make enhancements to enrich their lives together. My belief is that each client’s compilation of struggles requires customized treatment suited to their needs. Regardless of the treatment style, I aim to help every client increase their self-awareness, gain new perspectives, decrease their symptoms, and increase awareness of their personal strengths.
Therapy is not a one-size-fits-all approach. I meet individuals of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds with a focus on identifying what makes them unique. Using my holistic approach, I provide a safe and healing environment for clients to share their stories so that we can make enhancements to enrich their lives together. My belief is that each client’s compilation of struggles requires customized treatment suited to their needs. Regardless of the treatment style, I aim to help every client increase their self-awareness, gain new perspectives, decrease their symptoms, and increase awareness of their personal strengths.
“Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky, but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy- the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” -Brené Brown
“Owning our story can be hard, but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky, but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy- the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” -Brené Brown
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Emotionally Focused Therapists
Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.