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Dr. Celena Heine

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Dr. Celena Heine, LMHC

Florida

Dr. Celena Heine, LMHC - Family and parenting concerns

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About

  • Attachment-based work
  • Cognitive behavioral tools
  • Mindfulness skills

About Celena

Dr. Celena Heine is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with seven years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and issues connected to parenting and family concerns. Her background also includes coaching for professional life and support around addictions, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles.

She uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies in sessions. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify patterns of thinking and behavior, and Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current bonds.

In practice she helps people talk through relationship strain, family problems, grief, and intimacy-related worries. She can work with issues such as abandonment, communication problems, codependency, and feelings of isolation or shame. She also supports those managing impulsivity, dissociation, or recovery from domestic violence and substance use concerns.

Sessions balance talking and skills work. Typical steps include clarifying goals, noticing unhelpful habits, and practicing new ways to respond. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be added to manage strong emotions and build coping tools. The focus is on clear, usable approaches rather than abstract techniques.

Dr. Heine practices in Florida and carries the LMHC credential. She conducts clinical work in English and works collaboratively with each person to decide the next steps. To begin, readers are invited to use the site process to match and schedule an initial session.

How sessions work

Therapeutic approaches used during online work

Dr. Heine combines a few practical approaches to address relationship and parenting strains as well as anxiety and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections; it helps with struggles around trust, closeness, and abandonment. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's priorities so sessions focus on what matters most right now. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems active and teaches concrete skills to change them.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their history, goals, and daily life. That collaborative process includes trying an approach and adjusting it based on how helpful it feels.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It also makes it simpler to continue support during life transitions or when coordinating around work and caregiving responsibilities.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBody imageCodependencyCommunication problemsDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

7+ years

Listed in

Florida

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting and family-related concerns, and related issues such as grief, addictions, and self-esteem.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

She uses a client-centered approach paired with practical techniques from CBT and mindfulness to help people change unhelpful patterns and learn coping skills.

How much experience does she have?

She has seven years of professional experience as a clinician working with a range of concerns including coaching and clinical issues.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is a Florida LMHC and practices in Florida.

Can she work with people in other countries or languages?

Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.

What session formats are offered?

Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified here.

How does cost work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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