About Dr.Claribel
Dr. Dr.Claribel Perez uses a client-centered style that puts the person first. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with humanistic ideas to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Dr. Perez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of experience. She focuses on simple, practical steps in sessions.
Conversations look at current problems and the strengths a person already has. That can include identifying negative thought patterns, building coping skills, or talking through relationship and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
In the first meeting she listens closely to understand the situation and what the person hopes to change. Together they set goals that can be adjusted as progress is made. Sessions are paced to match a client's needs and comfort level.
Dr. Perez also helps people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and life transitions. She uses mindfulness and elements of solution-focused work to help people notice what works and try small, manageable changes.
The work is collaborative and grounded in everyday steps. Her background includes two decades of counseling experience and a long career in education. That experience shapes a teaching style that aims to explain tools clearly and offer practical skills people can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, supportive relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist centers the conversation on what matters most to the person and follows their lead to set goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT often uses short exercises, thought records, and homework that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions to track progress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. That discussion guides whether sessions emphasize skill-building, mindfulness practice, or solution-focused steps, and the plan can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching skills. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep work moving forward between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English