Sallie Trecek, LMHC - Therapist in Florida

About Sallie

Sallie Trecek is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress and anxiety. She greets families with a calm, straightforward style and helps them face practical problems. Sallie aims to turn obstacles into steps forward and listens closely to what each person brings to the session.

Sallie has 28 years of experience and is based in Florida. Her background includes work in schools and other helping roles, which shaped her skill in talking through life transitions and relationship strains.

Background and approach

She has supported people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, depression, compassion fatigue, and ADHD, as well as issues tied to veteran and armed forces experiences and multicultural concerns. Her approach blends several methods to meet real needs.

She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness tools to build calm and focus. Solution-focused ideas help set clear, achievable steps when families or individuals want fast, practical change. In sessions Sallie acts as a steady partner who helps clients sort options and decide next steps.

She aims to create room for new choices rather than repeating old patterns. Many people find her direct but warm manner useful when navigating parenting challenges or life transitions. Sallie communicates in English and accepts international clients for online work.

Her Florida license is LMHC, and she brings nearly three decades of practice to conversations about family, parenting, and personal growth.

How Sallie Uses Practical Approaches in Online Sessions

Sallie often draws on client-centered therapy, which means she follows each person’s lead and focuses on what matters most to them. This approach helps clients feel heard while they sort priorities and set goals.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, and patterns that get in the way of parenting or relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sallie treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She mixes techniques when that helps move things forward in a straightforward way.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions offer flexibility, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let people get steady support without major schedule disruption, and they can switch formats as needs change.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Sallie address?

Sallie works with stress, anxiety, family and parenting issues, coping with life changes, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, depression, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is practical and collaborative. She listens closely, follows client priorities, and uses clear tools like cognitive techniques and mindfulness to help people take small steps forward.

How much experience does she have?

She has 28 years of professional experience, including work in schools and other helping roles that informed her approach to families and diverse backgrounds.

What are Sallie’s credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with the credential FL LMHC MH21148 and practices from Florida.

Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online therapy.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What steps are needed to start therapy?

Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Parenting issues

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 28 years
Licensed: Florida
Languages: English

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