APPROACHES TO TREATMENT

ELIZABETH MAHANEY, LMHC, MFT, LPC, LCPC, CCTP, NCC, DCC, Ph.D, Psychotherapist, Gottman Couples Counselor, NVC Compassionate Communication Specialist, and Trauma Informed Therapist.

Qualified Supervisor for MFT, MHC Interns, Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator

SouthTampaTherapy@gmail.com 813-240-3237

In-Office 425 S. Orleans Ave. Tampa, FL 33606

Virtual Visits (Licensed): Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina

Offering Online Counseling, Telehealth, Virtual Therapy 7 days/ week.

Our South Tampa Therapy Team ~ Offering in-person appointments M-F, Sat & Sun.

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You may fill out Consult/ Triage/ Waitlist/ Discovery Call Form

Welcome to South Tampa Therapy - Your Path to Personal Growth and Healing

At South Tampa Therapy, we understand that seeking help is a courageous first step towards personal growth and well-being. Our dedicated team of licensed therapists provides expert counseling services in a warm, welcoming, and confidential setting. Whether you're facing individual challenges, relationship issues, or family dynamics, we're here to support you on your journey to a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Our Services Include:

• Individual Counseling: Tailored to meet your unique needs, our individual therapy sessions offer a safe space to explore personal issues such as anxiety, depression, stress management, and life transitions. We empower you to achieve personal insights and develop coping strategies that foster resilience and self-growth.

• Couples Counseling: Relationships can be complex, and sometimes you need a helping hand. Our couples counseling services are designed to address communication barriers, intimacy issues, and other relational challenges. Utilizing proven approaches like the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, we help couples rebuild trust and strengthen their bonds.

• Family Therapy: Families are systems of interconnected relationships, each with its own dynamics. Our family therapy sessions focus on improving communication, resolving conflicts, and fostering a harmonious home environment. We help family members understand one another better and work collaboratively towards common goals.

• Child and Adolescent Therapy: The early years are crucial for personal development. Our child and adolescent services are geared towards helping young individuals navigate the complexities of growing up. From behavioral issues to emotional challenges, our therapists specialize in creating relatable and effective strategies for our younger clients.

• Group Therapy: Sometimes, the support of peers facing similar struggles can be incredibly healing. Our group therapy sessions provide a collaborative environment where clients can share experiences, offer mutual support, and learn from each other under the guidance of a therapist.

• Intensive Therapy/ Marathon Couples Sessions: If you're seeking rapid relief from anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship issues, our Intensive Therapy or Marathon sessions offer an effective solution. Unlike traditional therapy sessions, our approach involves dedicating a specific block of time - ranging from 2 1/2 to 3 hours. This concentrated format allows for deep exploration and rapid resolution of issues, helping you achieve your therapeutic goals more efficiently.

• ICF Coaching: A client-centered approach, where coaches empower clients to set goals, create outcomes, and manage personal and professional growth. ICF certified coaches are trained to facilitate client growth through thought-provoking and creative processes that inspire them to maximize their personal and professional potential focusing on improving performance, enhancing relationships, and promoting a deeper understanding of oneself and others.

• EMDR: A technique that utilizes the biological mechanisms involved in REM sleep (the stage of sleep that restores your brain and is good for memory and learning) to process painful events and/or negative core beliefs. Member of EMDRIA, Nancy Araven, MA, LMHC, CCTP, NCC, DCC 813-421-5465  https://www.aravencounseling.com/emdr

Specialized Custom Therapy: In addition to our core services, South Tampa Therapy offers a variety of specialized programs and workshops. These include stress reduction, parenting, and sessions focused on specific life skills, providing valuable resources for our community members to thrive.

Why Choose South Tampa Therapy?

• Compassionate Therapists: Our team comprises highly qualified and compassionate professionals who are dedicated to providing the highest level of care.

• Confidentiality and Respect: We prioritize your privacy and respect at all times, ensuring a safe and non-judgmental space for all our clients.

• Customized Treatment Plans: We believe in personalized care tailored to your specific needs and therapeutic goals.

• Community-Focused: At the heart of South Tampa, we are committed to enhancing the well-being of our community through various outreach initiatives.

Ready to start your journey towards a better you? Contact South Tampa Therapy today to schedule your consultation. Let us help you unlock your potential and lead a life that you love. TEXT: 813-240-3237

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At South Tampa Therapy, we're not just about treatment; we're about transforming lives. Join us today and experience the difference compassionate, professional therapy can make.

“As a Gottman, EFT, Harvard trained marriage counselor and individual psychotherapist, in private practice for over 20+ years, I have had experience working with many different types of difficulties and marital issues. I will help you transform your relationships (with yourself and others)! Over time, I've noticed that many of my couples and individuals were suffering with the same types of disarray. I want to help you overcome this negativity and live a more purposeful, self-aware, and intentional lifestyle. Therefore, I've created a unique transformational program with an individualized approach and system that will help hold you accountable for the agreements that are made during and between sessions. I strive to share life-changing tools for healthy relationships.

As your therapist, I want to give you as much information or psycho-education as possible to help you develop skills that may enhance your partnerships and life, even from the very first activity. Therefore, I have clients and couples who only need a few sessions to gain more focus and clarity to establish an agile plan of action.   

The sooner issues are addressed, the easier they are to work out. Sometimes, marriage counseling, couples therapy, or individual psychotherapy is all that is needed, providing a space for the couple or client to think and to explore their situation. Marriage, family, and individual counseling can offer the opportunity to understand the deeper, more subconscious blockages and patterns in a relationship. The frustration of not feeling heard and understood can result in a detrimental outcome and is frequently linked to our earliest and most powerful emotional experiences.

Good news, these are learned behaviors. We can reprocess, become more self aware, set clear intentions, goals, and boundaries to overcome challenges. Typically, several agreements, resources, and tools are facilitated and made readily accessible through this approach to effectively help handle even the most complex cases.

Through mutual understanding, a couple or family often finds new strategies for enjoying their relationships. 

I look forward to helping you. If I can't help, I bet that I will find someone who can...  Text me for some guidance with the process for finding a good fit for your specific circumstances.”

813-240-3237

Respectfully,

Dr. Elizabeth Mahaney

WE'LL CONNECT AND STRENGTHEN YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS IN 3 WAYS

Step 1 (To Do): Attune to Awarenesses

Awarenesses may start with researched assessments based on thousands of individuals or couples that will recognize cycles of conflict so issues can be stopped and transformed into moments for self-compassion, intimacy and connection. Receive a detailed analysis of your relationship style so you can turn your insecurity into opportunities for a deeper romantic bond. Miscommunication and disconnect happens when the lack of self-awareness could be part of the problem and partners don’t understand each other. My first task is to get you on the same page with yourself and loved ones. Let’s create a game plan and brainstorm agreements about how to start the process. This step can feel overwhelming but my goal is to help you focus and narrow down specific goals. We will approach the problems collaboratively with questions like: “How can life feel better?”, “How can each of you start positive changes intrinsically?”, “You are a subjective human and you can only feel and control you”. Therefore, all change happens intrinsically.

Step 2 (Doing): Attach to Agreements

Learn how to intentionally ask for what you feel and need in a way that gives your partner a way to express love. Create a culture of love and respect that builds trust and sexual passion. We will deal with perpetual problems, heal old wounds, and rekindle the spark of companionship together. Playfully explore ways to create a fulfilling and passionate relationship. Let’s create more intimacy that brought you together in the first place, create new agreements that make life more enjoyable, and meet each other’s needs. I’ll offer you specific techniques, resources, interventions, tools, or activities that may work for you by brainstorming, collaborating, and developing the treatment plan together. I will also explain how to connect through communication by making specific actionable, immediately do-able, positive requests. Learn how to love your partner without losing yourself.

Step 3 (Done): Accountability for Lasting Change

I give you all the tools you need to understand what changes need to be made, avoid relapse and continue to build a meaningful relationship that gets better with time. I’ll also help hold you accountable for creating, trouble shooting, and maintaining sustainable intentional responses to “This Thing Called Life” and… sustain a connection throughout changes along the way.

PSYCHOTHERAPY, COUNSELING SERVICES & MODALITIES:

Here is a list of approaches to treatment. By no means, is this all of our offerings. Humanistic needs and modalities to treatment vary greatly depending on who, what, where and when a situation or issue is indicated. I strive for a deliberate evidence based practice. If I cannot help you… I will help you find someone who can! 

Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Dr. John Gottman), Solution-Focused Couples Counseling, Person Centered / Rogerian/ Humanistic Psychology/ NVC Non-Violent Communication (Dr. Marshall Rosenberg), Compassionate Communication, Intensive Couples Counseling or Marriage Therapy (2-3 hr. sessions available), Intensive Individual Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Holistic Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, EFT Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapy (Dr. Susan Johnson), Attachment Theory, Communication of Life, Affairs/ Infidelity & Recovery, Marriage Counseling, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (Dr. John Gottman), Premarital Counseling, Couples and Addiction Recovery, Gottsex Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Integral Theory (Ken Wilber), Exposure and Response Prevention, Body-Mind Psychotherapy, Breath-Work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychology, Pragmatic Psychodynamic Theory, Relational Life Therapy (RLT), REBT, Integral Psychology, Spiral Dynamics Framework, AEDP Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Choice Theory, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Acceptance and Commitment Theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Dreamwork & Dream Analysis, Existential Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Feminist Therapy, Filial Therapy, Guided Therapeutic Imagery, Imago Relationship Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Life Coaching, Relationship Enhancement Therapy, Creative Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Parenting and Emotion Coaching, Bringing Baby Home Program, Play Therapy, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids (Dr. Laura Markham), Sand Tray / Sand Play Therapy, SOS Approach to Feeding and Eating Difficulties or Disorders.

SPECIALTIES AND CONCERNS ADDRESSED:

Gottman Therapy: Couples Counseling, Relationship and Marital Issues, Affairs, Infidelity & Trauma

Relationship and Marital Issues

Pre-Marital Counseling

Communication

Couples Conflict Resolution

Individual Psychotherapy

Anger Management

Trust Issues

Family Problems/ Internal Family Systems

Attachment Issues (Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized)

Stress Management and Adjusting to Change

Trauma

Transformation

Emotional Intelligence

Anxiety Disorders and Fears

Mood Disorders

Depression/ Bipolar

OCD

PTSD/ CPTSD

Self-Awareness

Step Parenting/ Blended Families

Parenting/ Bringing Baby Home (Gottman)

Sexuality, Gay & Lesbian Issues

GottSex Therapy

Personal & Career Choice Coaching

Life Improvement and Personal Growth

Child Behavioral Problems

Child School/Learning Problems

Divorce Emotional Recovery

Divorce, Mediation, & Remodification

Imago Couples Therapy

Mid-Life Crises and Mid-Career Changes

Multi-Cultural or Multi-Ethnic Couples

Spiritual Counseling

Discovering Gifts and Purpose

Women’s Menopause and Midlife Issues

Infertility & Adoption

Lifestyle Assessments

Individual Psychotherapy

Loss or Grief

Addiction/ Substance Abuse

Abuse/ Emotional Abuse

Self Esteem/ Self Harm/ Guilt/ Shame

Eating Disorders

Creative Blocks

Workplace Issues

Women’s Issues

Sports Psychology & Performance Enhancement

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD – children/ adults)

Academic Concerns

Motivational Training

Autism Spectrum

Child or Adolescent Issues

Testing & Evaluation

ELIZABETH MAHANEY, LMHC, MFT, LPC, LCPC, CCTP, NCC, DCC, Ph.D, Gottman Couples Counselor, NVC Compassionate Communication Specialist, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Trauma Informed Therapist.

Qualified Supervisor for MFT, MHC Interns, Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator

SouthTampaTherapy@gmail.com 813-240-3237

425 S. Orleans Ave. Tampa, FL 33606

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