About Berekat
Berekat Petros is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of clinical experience. He practices in Florida and works with adults facing a wide range of emotional and life challenges. He speaks English and Amharic and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical from the first session.
He often helps people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and stress. He also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD, and problems with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps you can try between meetings. Berekat uses approaches that center on the individual and teach concrete skills. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits.
Mindfulness and motivational strategies are used to increase awareness and sustain change. His style is collaborative and goal-oriented. He works with each person to set realistic priorities and adjust methods as progress is made.
Sessions can include problem-solving, skill practice, and checking what is working. People who prefer a practical, steady approach may find his way of working helpful. He has experience across many concerns including relationship and family stress, parenting strain, chronic illness and pain, body-image and eating issues, and caregiver burnout.
He aims to offer real options for coping with life changes. To begin, expect a short intake to map concerns and agree on objectives. The focus is on accessible language, workable steps, and regular review of goals rather than jargon or long, abstract explanations.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Berekat uses client-centered methods to ground sessions in each person’s experience, focusing on listening, understanding, and working from the client’s priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and build concrete habits to change mood and behavior. Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily reactions and can help with stress, anxiety, and chronic pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is reviewed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps the individual feel better and manage day-to-day challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper processing, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing support and quick skill reminders. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping a regular schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English, Amharic