About Tiffany
Dr. Tiffany Vastardis helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She practices in Florida and brings 17 years of professional experience to her work.
Her approach aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. She uses a client-centered style that focuses on each person’s goals and values. Sessions often include skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are woven in to help people make choices that match what matters to them. Dr. Vastardis pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns.
That helps when people are coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care history, attachment issues, or trouble with commitment and communication. She also addresses concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and co-occurring conditions. Her work is grounded in practical strategies and respectful conversation.
Clients can expect a blend of skills training, reflective dialogue, and goal-focused planning. The tone is collaborative and straightforward, with space to process emotions and build new habits. Sessions are offered in English and available to clients inside and outside the United States.
Dr. Vastardis supports people exploring sexuality, kink, and identity matters without judgment. She emphasizes steady progress and real-world tools for day-to-day living.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that line up with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which helps reduce depressive symptoms and anxious patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to build healthier ways of relating and feeling connected.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend strategies from these methods. Clients and the therapist pick what fits best and adjust as needed in ongoing sessions, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typed support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones, while letting licensed professionals deliver consistent, approach-driven care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English