About Oren
Dr. Oren Hernández is a licensed mental health counselor and family therapist who uses a person-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. He works in both English and Spanish and brings 30 years of experience in Florida to his practice.
He focuses on practical steps people can take day to day. Sessions often look at patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood and then test simple changes.
Background and approach
He also helps people who are coping with trauma, addiction, chronic illness, caregiving strain, or challenging shifts at work or in relationships. Dr. Hernández draws on cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and try alternate behaviors.
He pairs that with mindfulness strategies to calm strong reactions and build steady habits. He uses client-centered conversation to make sure each person’s values and goals guide the work. Clients may bring concerns about intimacy, body image, sexual diversity, or identity-related stress.
He has experience with anger, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, and can support those working through grief, abandonment, or medical stressors. Therapy with Dr. Hernández is collaborative and goal-focused.
He helps people set clear, achievable steps and checks progress each session. People looking for Spanish-language care can expect to speak with him in Spanish when preferred.
Approaches that fit online work
Dr. Hernández commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means conversations focus on what matters most to the person and on practical goals they set. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so the client can try specific changes and see what helps.He also brings mindfulness practices into online appointments to teach simple breathing and attention skills that reduce reactivity. Together these methods suit stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship patterns, and coping with chronic illness or addiction. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to the client’s needs, goals, and preferences during early sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, live chat or text help with quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish