About Waynette
Waynette Speakman greets people with a calm, practical approach. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 12 years of experience. She focuses first on what is happening now and on small steps that lead to change.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports those coping with parenting pressures, ADHD, addictions, relationship strains, trauma and abuse, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify clear goals and workable next steps rather than long, open-ended talks. Her background includes training that blends talking therapies with skill-based strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are used to teach coping skills, manage strong emotions, and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness practices are added when helpful to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Waynette also draws on a client-centered stance that keeps conversations grounded in each person's values and strengths. This means the pace and focus shift to what matters most for the client, whether that's managing anger, improving communication, or building motivation for change.
Practical tools, homework tasks, and coaching-style feedback are common parts of sessions. People who want clear steps and collaboration - and who need help balancing daily life demands - can expect a direct, supportive style that aims for steady progress.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Waynette often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT provides clear exercises and small experiments you can practice between sessions to see what helps.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques are useful when feelings feel overwhelming or when communication patterns lead to repeated conflict.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different strategies until a good fit emerges. This collaborative process means goals, techniques, and the pace of change are adjusted to suit each person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier around work, school, and family life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility to use therapy in ways that match daily life and communication preferences.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English