About Ana
Ana Budeguer is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 17 years of experience. She focuses on relationship struggles, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and can support people who prefer either language.
Born and raised in Argentina, she has lived in the United States for over 20 years. That personal background shapes her understanding of immigration challenges and the strain of adapting to a new country.
Background and approach
She also brings experience helping people facing caregiver stress, isolation, communication problems, and issues around attachment and abandonment. In sessions she aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Conversations are straightforward and grounded.
She uses a mix of practical tools and deeper exploration depending on what each person needs. Her work draws on approaches that help process difficult memories and change unhelpful patterns. This can include learning new ways to think about problems, noticing bodily responses tied to stress, and examining long-standing relationship patterns.
The focus is on small, manageable steps that fit everyday life. Ana emphasizes collaboration and empowerment. She helps people set clear goals and tries methods that match those goals.
Many clients come for support after loss, relationship rupture, or major life transitions, and she prioritizes steady pacing and realistic strategies.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and over time, helping people understand why they react a certain way. It can be useful for recurring conflicts, attachment difficulties, and questions about life purpose.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises. It helps with anxiety, low mood, impulsivity, and problems like jealousy or communication breakdowns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean using CBT tools for quick symptom relief and psychodynamic conversation for deeper patterns, or combining somatic techniques when the body holds trauma responses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, journaling-style support, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue consistent care across distances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish