Zelimna Taveras, LMHC

Zelimna Taveras is a bilingual English and Spanish Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. An LMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor authorized to provide professional counseling services. With over eight years of clinical experience, she has supported children, adolescents, families, and adults facing a wide spectrum of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, anxiety, and anger management.

Her clinical practice is informed by trauma-focused work and cognitive behavioral strategies, and she integrates strength-based methods, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based approaches, mindfulness therapy, and the Gottman Method as appropriate. She has specific training in Trauma-Focused CBT and Play Therapy, and holds certifications in Trauma-Focused CBT and Infant Mental Health - Attachment Therapy.

Throughout her career she has worked with at-risk youth, social services systems, children with special needs, and homeless families, bringing experience with family dynamics and systems-level concerns. Her work also addresses issues such as intimacy and relationship difficulties, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and grief, as well as focused areas like abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, dissociation, domestic violence, and forgiveness.

Taveras emphasizes a collaborative, non-judgmental therapeutic alliance that centers clients' strengths and practical skills for achieving stability and wellness. She aims to empower individuals and families to make informed, healthy decisions while navigating life transitions and healing from past wounds.