Silvia Bibas
Experienced Florida counselor for families
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Silvia
Silvia Bibas is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 20 years of experience supporting people through life’s hard moments. She focuses on relationships, parenting, stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. Silvia works in both English and Spanish and draws on practical tools to help clients move forward.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at small, manageable change rather than quick fixes. Silvia often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and make clear behavior changes. She also uses client-centered methods that emphasize listening and respect, and emotionally-focused ideas to address relationship patterns.
These approaches are explained in plain language during early sessions so clients know what to expect. Clients commonly bring relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, or stress related to work and life changes. Additional areas of focus include multicultural concerns, immigration issues, postpartum depression, caregiving and aging issues, and blended family dynamics.
Silvia offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or messaging. Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps clients identify their own solutions; this is helpful for people who want a respectful space to talk and be heard.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors and is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Emotionally-focused ideas pay attention to patterns in close relationships. The therapist helps people notice how they react to one another and practices new ways of connecting, which can be useful for resolving recurring conflicts.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Silvia will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then recommend techniques that fit the client's needs. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options allow sessions from home or work, make scheduling easier, and support continued work between meetings through messaging. Many people find that having these formats makes it simpler to keep therapy consistent with their daily life.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
Talk to Silvia
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point