Mayra Martinez Gelabert

Mayra Martinez Gelabert is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, family concerns, and compassion fatigue. She aims to help people take the first step and begin talking about what feels hard.

She creates a calm, open space where clients can name their feelings and worries without judgment. Sessions center on honest conversation and practical steps people can try between meetings. The work often includes sorting through relationship patterns and attachment concerns, and addressing issues like abandonment, guilt, shame, and isolation.

Mayra also helps with everyday pressures such as caregiver stress, money and financial worries, and midlife transitions. She supports people facing communication breakdowns, divorce or separation, and struggles with body image or life purpose. Her approach is steady and person-focused, with an emphasis on what matters most to each client.

Her long experience includes varied settings across Florida, bringing perspective on common life stressors. Mayra speaks English and holds the credential LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She recognizes that starting therapy can feel daunting and invites each person to proceed at their own pace.

To begin, prospective clients follow the site's Start Therapy process and complete a short matching questionnaire. From there they schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability and the platform's options.

Approaches and how online sessions can work for you

Mayra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and make concrete changes. One common approach is problem-focused talk therapy, which breaks big worries into smaller steps and teaches practical coping tools for anxiety, stress, and mood problems. Another frequent focus is work on attachment and relationship patterns, which looks at how past connections shape current reactions and helps people try new ways of relating.

Choosing the best approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust techniques when something is not working.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments around work or caregiving responsibilities. It can also offer shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed, or options that reduce the need for being on camera. Ask about available formats when you schedule so you can pick what works best for your routine.