Orlando Garcia
Compassionate family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Orlando
Orlando Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 29 years of clinical experience. He focuses on family and parenting issues along with relationship and individual concerns. He speaks English and Spanish and works with people across a wide age range.
He blends several grounded methods to help families and individuals take practical steps forward. Clients find sessions are straightforward and action-oriented. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
He also uses Client-Centered Therapy to stay attentive to each person’s experience and build a trusting conversation. Orlando combines ideas from psychodynamic and solution-focused work when helpful. That can mean looking at patterns that repeat across relationships and also setting small, clear goals for change.
He adapts the mix to the family's needs rather than using a single fixed method. He has particular experience supporting issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addictions, and grief. Additional focus areas include blended family issues, communication problems, codependency, and coping with life changes.
Sessions may also address intimacy, eating concerns, ADHD, and career stress. Orlando aims to help families and individuals notice strengths, try new ways of relating, and move toward better daily functioning. He encourages a practical, hopeful approach so people can see changes in everyday life.
Approach and online care for families and individuals
Orlando commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in his online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce stress and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening closely to each person and creating a space where they can speak openly about family and parenting concerns.He also draws on Solution-Focused ideas when families want quick, practical steps. That approach focuses on small, achievable goals and tracking changes over time to build momentum. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with each person or family and adjust methods to fit their goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and keep work moving forward between visits. Orlando uses these options to make therapy more accessible and to support steady progress toward clearer communication and daily routines.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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