About Silvia
Silvia Bibas is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She brings 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and career concerns. Silvia speaks English and Spanish and uses straightforward, practical work in sessions.
She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. Silvia aims to make the process feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Background and approach
Silvia draws from client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening-focused space. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and find new ways of responding. Emotionally-focused work helps people address attachment and intimacy-related concerns.
Mindfulness and narrative approaches are woven in to help people notice patterns and rewrite stressful stories they keep telling themselves. This mix supports treatment for grief, trauma, depression, and life transitions. Silvia also addresses multicultural and immigration-related stress as part of broader concerns.
Practical issues like parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, postpartum depression, and career transitions are common topics in her work. She also assists people facing aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related stress, and compassion fatigue. Silvia offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Silvia uses client-centered therapy to build a listening-first relationship where the client's priorities guide each session. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes therapy around their goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify patterns of thinking that cause distress and to practice new responses that reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Silvia discusses goals, preferences, and daily demands with each person and then tailors techniques that fit their life. Collaboration guides decisions about which methods to try and how to adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins and written exercises between longer sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting sessions around family, work, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish