About Beatriz
Beatriz Van Sky offers straightforward, compassionate support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and eating-related concerns. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with two decades of experience. Beatriz greets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that help them feel steadier day to day.
She helps people talk through difficult feelings and the problems that follow major life changes. That can include the shock of loss, challenges after sexual assault, panic attacks, or the heavy fatigue that comes with chronic stress.
Background and approach
She also works with those coping with postpartum depression, caregiving burdens, and midlife transitions. Beatriz keeps sessions clear and direct. She creates an open space for people to share what they are living through without fear of judgment.
Together clients and Beatriz set realistic goals and choose small, doable steps to reduce distress and improve routines. Her practice also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, cancer-related stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and communication problems that strain relationships. Beatriz speaks English and Spanish and can offer sessions in either language when needed.
To begin, people typically complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session. Beatriz works through common concerns with practical approaches that match each person’s needs and daily life.
Approaches that fit into everyday life
Beatriz uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real problems and clear skills. One common approach she uses helps people manage anxiety and panic through breathing exercises, grounding skills, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach addresses trauma and abuse by helping a person tell their story at a pace they can handle, learn coping tools for intense memories, and rebuild a sense of safety in daily routines.Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. Beatriz will review goals, try methods that match what a person needs, and adjust the plan over time. She collaborates with each person to pick approaches that feel useful and doable in their life.
Online therapy makes it easier to keep that work going. Sessions are available by video call or phone, and there are options for live chat or ongoing text-based messaging for quick check-ins, homework support, or shorter conversations. These formats allow flexibility for busy schedules, lower travel needs, and choices about being on camera or not, while keeping focus on steady progress and practical problem solving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish