About Cely
Cely Gonzalez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, and problems with relationships and intimacy. She also supports people dealing with trauma, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Her approach is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation. She aims to treat each person with respect and without stigmatizing labels.
Cely blends several methods to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take steps that matter. She also applies elements of client-centered work, which emphasizes listening and building trust.
For emotional regulation and intense mood issues she may incorporate dialectical behavior strategies. This mix supports people facing mood disorders, trauma, addiction, and relationship strain. Cely has three years of clinical experience as a counselor and holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential.
Her background includes individual counseling and roles reviewing clinical care, which gave her broad exposure to many presenting concerns. People who choose her can expect straightforward guidance, goal-focused plans, and adjustments when needed. She encourages questions and will tailor conversations to what feels most useful.
If someone is ready to explore change, she offers steady support through the process.
Approach and options for online counseling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match what matters to you. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making life changes by clarifying values and building small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving coping skills, which can help with mood instability, anger, and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That process helps find which techniques and pacing feel most useful for each person.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face dialogue and exercises, phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access care more flexibly and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English