Berekat Petros
Practical counseling for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English, Amharic
- Format
- Online sessions
About Berekat
Berekat Petros is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of clinical experience. He holds the Texas LPC license number TX LPC 71956 and the Florida LMHC license number FL LMHC MH26828. He works in Florida and provides therapy in English and Amharic.
He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addiction, and grief. He also addresses parenting concerns, relationship and family questions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and focused on clear steps you can try between meetings. Petros tends to use straightforward, collaborative methods. He listens first, then helps clients set small goals.
He blends talk, skill practice, and problem solving in ways that fit each person’s situation. Over the years he has worked with a wide range of issues including ADHD, trauma and abuse, chronic health problems, and self-esteem struggles. He also supports people dealing with eating worries, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress.
New clients can expect a measured pace and an emphasis on coping strategies that are easy to use. Berekat focuses on what is most pressing, and on what can make daily life feel more manageable. His background includes 12 years of counseling experience across different settings.
That experience informs practical choices in sessions, such as when to use structured exercises or when to focus on reflective conversation. He aims to work together with each person to build useful habits and clearer thinking.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building trust, helping people feel heard and supported while they identify their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs space to sort through feelings and make decisions with guidance.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often uses short exercises and homework, which work well in video or text formats for issues like anxiety, depression, and stress.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices can be guided live and then used independently between sessions to manage strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that match their needs, goals, and daily life. That may mean combining methods or adjusting the pace until something feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel barriers, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing encouragement. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep consistent contact when life gets unpredictable.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English, Amharic
Next step
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