About Celena
Celena Benjamin is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strains, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, anger, addictions, and help with life changes and career decisions. She brings 27 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical skill-building.
She listens closely and asks focused questions to help people notice their coping styles and strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to strengthen skills so clients can make concrete changes in their lives and relationships. Her approach is interactive and goal-oriented. Early work often maps current coping, boundaries, and supports.
From there she helps craft small action steps and plans that fit each person’s situation. She adapts pacing and techniques to match the individual’s needs. Celena uses methods that include mindfulness, acceptance strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered work.
She helps people practice new ways of thinking, regulate strong emotions, and try different behaviors between sessions. The emphasis is on usable tools rather than long talks alone. Sessions can include coaching-style guidance and concrete assignments when useful.
The focus is on building skills to improve relationships, manage mood and anxiety, reduce unhelpful behaviors, and increase daily functioning. She welcomes international clients and works in English.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, and obsessive thoughts. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes listening and empathic understanding so people feel heard while they work through goals and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that match those needs, and adjust the plan together as progress unfolds. That flexibility helps tailor care to what actually helps the person in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let for face-to-face work and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins and brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Vermont
- Languages
- English