Our Florida Therapists
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JoAnna LaFratta
At the heart of JoAnna’s work is creating a space where you feel supported, accepted, and truly seen—a space where you can explore your thoughts and emotions at your own pace. Through a collaborative, client-centered approach grounded in empathy and respect, I will create an environment where you feel supported and understood. I utilize evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness, to help clients heal, build resilience, and achieve meaningful, lasting change.
States: Virginia, Texas, Florida, Maine
Top specialties: Maternal Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety, Infertility, and Trauma
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Gessica Preskin, LMHC
Gessica is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over a decade of experience helping individuals navigate life's challenges. Gessica has dedicated herself to supporting mothers through their unique journeys. She specializes in anxiety, depression, perinatal issues, divorce/relationship issues, life transitions, and career counseling. Accepts: BCBS, Florida Blue, Aetna, Cigna, Oscar, United
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Bailey Richardson, LCSW
Bailey Richardson, LCSW
Bailey has worked with families for several years. She got into this field due to her mom being a caseworker for families in her small community. Some mothers and families just need that person who will listen without judgement. She saw the impact her mom made and she knows she can do the same for new mothers and their families. Accepts: Florida Blue, BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, United, Oscar
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Nichole Jefferson
Nichole is a licensed mental health counselor with over 20 years of professional experience in helping individuals achieve their personal and professional goals. She has three years of dedicated experience working in the mental health field. Her greatest strengths include building therapeutic rapport with adults and adolescents starting at 13 year of age. She is very intentional about creating a safe and secure environment for her clients in which everyone feels valued. She meets every client where they are and helps them to see life through new perspectives. She believes that every client has the potential to be victorious, and she is passionate about seeing individuals meet and or exceed their therapeutic goals. Specialities: Anxiety, Depression, Postpartum Depression and Anxiety, Motherhood, Grief and Bereavement, Trauma, and Infertility.
State: Florida
Insurance: United, Aetna, Florida Blue, Cigna
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Natalia Valbuena
Natalia is a Florida-based therapist specializing in women’s mental health. She is passionate about helping women navigate the challenges of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition into new parenthood. Her own experiences with infertility, loss, and parenthood allow her to connect deeply and advocate for women who may be struggling to find their voice during these vulnerable times.
In addition to working with women, Natalia supports individuals, families, and children facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions.State: Florida
Bilingual English and Spanish
Insurances: Florida Blue, Aetna, Cigna, soon Medicaid
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Sarah Mathews, LPC
Sarah is passionate about meeting people where they are and joining them on their journey. With a holistic approach, Sarah wants to help clients live joy-filled, hope-full lives. Areas of experience: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Grief & loss, Adoption community, Trauma informed, Caregiver guilt/grief, Miscarriage, Post abortion care, fertility challenges, Anxiety, Depression, Life transitions.
States: Florida and Texas
Accepts: United, Aetna, Oscar, Cigna
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Dr. Caren Cooper
Dr. Cooper is a Board-Certified Licensed Professional Counselor. She specializes in Perinatal Mental Health, offering support for moms, moms-to-be, and even dads navigating pregnancy and postpartum journeys. She helps clients with PMADs, traumatic birth experiences, and everything in between.
States: Texas and Florida
Accepts: United, Cigna, Aetna, Oscar
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Maria Rader
Maria is located in Maine. The approaches used in her psychotherapeutic practice include: trauma-informed, attachment-based, CBT, grief and loss, EMDR, solution-focused, reflective process. She offers space for clients to process emotions, feel validated, problem-solve, reflect, locate inner/outer resources to manage this often unsettling terrain.
Maria shares that strong emotions in the perinatal time that interfere with daily life are not uncommon. You are not alone. Accessing mental health support during this time can be critical for restoring a sense of well-being in one's self and in the whole family.
State: Maine
Insurance: All commercial plans, Tricare, and MaineCare
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Natalie Lonstein
Natalie is a Maine-based therapist. She approaches therapy from a collaborative and strengths-based perspective. After getting to know you, and what makes you who you are, in addition to your background, experiences, and goals for therapy, she pulls from various clinical modalities to help support you where you are. She uses a blend of techniques from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and mindfulness practices, among others, always tailored to your needs.
State: Maine, Florida (COMING!)
Insurance: All commercial plans, Tricare, and MaineCare
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Ally Klayton
Ally is an integrative mental health clinician with over 25 years of experience in neonatal and maternal care. A Doctor of Nursing Practice and board-certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, she integrates evidence-based mental health counseling with integrative medicine and holistic modalities, including yoga therapy, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness. She specializes in supporting women and families through infertility, birth trauma, NICU experiences, postpartum mood disorders, grief and loss, and clinician burnout. She is passionate about bridging medicine.
Ally supports women, families, and healthcare professionals navigating trauma, postpartum challenges, NICU experiences, and clinical burnout. Her work blends evidence-based therapy, nervous system regulation, and integrative health to help clients move from survival into sustainable healing.
State: Florida
Insurances: Aetna, Cigna, Florida Blue, medicaid coming
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Danielle Falk
Danielle offers compassionate and client-centered therapy services for children, adolescents, and women in the perinatal and postpartum stages. Danielle’s approach integrates evidence-based practices with expressive arts and somatic techniques to support emotional well-being and self-expression. With a background in school-based mental health and experience.
State: Florida
Insurances: Florida Blue, Cigna, Aetna, Soon Medicaid Plans
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Ariana Orosz
Ariana is passionate about supporting families through difficult seasons. Ariana is certified in play therapy and expressive arts. She specializes in working with children and parents who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, ADHD, and the stress that comes with navigating big emotions.
Language: Spanish and English
State: Florida
Insurance: Aetna, Florida Blue, Cigna,
Link to bio in Headway: https://care.headway.co/providers/ariana-orosz-2?utm_source=pem&utm_medium=direct_link&utm_campaign=191906
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Gigi Arnold
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Gina Chase
As a therapist specializing in women's health, I am dedicated to supporting women through the complex journey of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and new parenthood. Leveraging my personal experience as a mother of two young children, I intimately understand the unique challenges and joys that women encounter during this transformative period. In addition to providing individual therapy sessions, I facilitate groups for expectant mothers and new parents. My therapeutic approach is solution-focused and draws upon evidence-based techniques from dialectical and cognitive behavioral therapy.
State: Florida
Insurance: Florida Blue
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Neha Saluja
Neha has more than twelve years of experience working with clients experiencing significant distress. Neha is licensed in California and Utah and have received specialized training to address trauma, family dynamics, and perinatal mental health.
States: California, Utah
Top specialties: Anxiety, Depression, Maternal mental health, Infertility, Grief, loss, Relationship issues, Women's issues
Insurance: All commercial plans on Headway
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Kevia Figueroa
Kevia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a National Certified Counselor. With a master’s degree in counseling specializing in family, couples, and marriage counseling. My experience includes assisting individuals through life transitions, including through pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood. I offer a compassionate space for those navigating post partum depression, anxiety, perinatal loss, and or other challenges that can arise during this transformative time.
Languages: English and Spanish
Insurance: Aetna, Cigna, Florida Blue, Oscar, United
States: Florida
Link to Bio on Headway: https://care.headway.co/providers/kevia-figueroa?utm_source=pem&utm_medium=direct_link&utm_campaign=175753
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Dr. Kyle Shirah
Language: English
State: Florida
Insurance: All plans including Medicaid
Link to Dr. Shirah’s bio on Headway:
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Amy Freede, LCSW - HOLD
Amy is passionate about helping women figure it all out: work, romance, friendships, hobbies, sleep, health, identity as well as navigating the journey to starting a family and coping with the onset of perinatal mental health issues. She draws interventions from CBT, ERP, DBT, and ACT. She specializes in the treatment of PMADS and OCD/anxiety disorders. Accepts: United, Cigna, Aetna, Oscar, Tricare
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Jennifer Ray, LCSW
Jennifer has over 3 years of experience helping clients with stress and anxiety, coping with grief and loss, motivation, and confidence. She believes you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. Having experienced quite a few storms herself, she has many resources to draw upon to help you, and endless empathy for you on your journey. Accepts: Aetna, Cigna
Mammha Support Groups
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NICU Group from March of Dimes & Mammha
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Mammha Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Group
Fridays at 11 am -12:30pm EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1kFIOJj3SOuaKsKTGnGG7Q#/registration
Mammha App for Parents!
The Mammha for Parents App provides your patients on-demand resources and support that offers evidence-based methods to empower your patients through motherhood. Patients get the free promocode after their Mammha screen!