Amarilis Colon Berrios , FL Psychologist PY10918

Amarilis Colon Berrios is a Florida psychologist with 15 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first steps toward support feel manageable and respectful. Her approach honors each person's story and current needs.

She focuses on individualized care, tailoring conversations and plans to what matters most to the client. Sessions often include practical skills for coping with change, reducing anxious thoughts, and rebuilding motivation. She also supports people dealing with addictions, anger, bipolar concerns, and life transitions.

Her work includes attention to women's issues such as body image, fertility worries, cancer-related distress, and concerns that arise around parenting. She also addresses aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life needs, and challenges connected to veteran or first responder experiences.

Amarilis draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and actions, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate. Motivational interviewing helps people find the drive to make change and sustain it.

She believes in a respectful, compassionate tone and adapts the pace to each person. Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's life.

Approaches you can use in online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, committed steps toward those values. It can reduce the struggle with unwanted thoughts and focus energy on meaningful action.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing everyday stress.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that supports processing distressing memories. When appropriate, elements of EMDR can be integrated into online trauma work under a psychologist's guidance.

The therapist will work collaboratively to find the best fit among these approaches based on the client's goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they will try methods, adjust as needed, and choose strategies that feel most helpful for ongoing progress.

Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text messaging makes it easier to keep in touch between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.