About Tisela
Tisela Viera greets people with a calm, direct style. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Florida with ten years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Her goal is to help clients find practical ways to manage pain, illness, or the daily weight of life.
Background and approach
She guides people toward clearer thinking and stronger coping skills. Many come to talk about isolation, shame, control issues, family of origin concerns, or the sense of losing purpose. Tisela draws on a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to gently challenge unhelpful thoughts. Client-centered techniques help people feel heard and understood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports making meaningful choices even when emotions are hard.
She also brings motivational interviewing and narrative therapy tools to help people clarify values and reshape the stories they tell about themselves. That blend aims to turn small insights into daily changes. Conversations are straightforward and paced for a calm, steady progress.
Practical matters are part of the work. Tisela addresses issues like chronic pain, cancer-related stress, money worries, social anxiety, and women’s concerns. If someone prefers English or Spanish, she can meet in that language.
Sessions are available by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
The therapist uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them drive every choice. ACT focuses on values and small, committed steps that align with what matters most, which is useful when coping with loss or chronic illness.She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on empathetic listening and unconditional acceptance. That approach helps people feel understood and safe to talk through difficult emotions and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and related behaviors, often in a structured way that produces clear, manageable practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring to decide which tools to use. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, and she invites feedback so work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, short reflections, or spacing out support between longer meetings. These options offer flexibility and make it easier to keep momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish