About Elida
Elida Segrera is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, interactive style to help people facing relationship struggles, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Elida focuses on practical steps and clear communication.
She helps people talk through intimacy issues, self-esteem concerns, parenting stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, aging challenges, fertility worries, and immigration-related stress.
Her work often blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method. That means sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person, identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and building healthier interaction patterns.
She adapts the approach to each person's situation and goals. Elida brings experience from couples and medical family therapy into individual sessions.
She listens for practical problems and helps people build skills for everyday life - communication techniques, coping strategies, and steps for repairing connection. Her guidance aims to be straightforward and usable between sessions.
People who choose Elida can expect a collaborative process. She works with clients to set realistic goals and track progress.
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Online approaches that focus on listening and active change
Elida uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding a person's view of their situation, which helps build trust and clarity about goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them.She often pairs these approaches with elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are involved. The Gottman-informed work focuses on improving communication, reducing criticism, and rebuilding connection through specific interaction skills. Together these methods help address intimacy, conflict, anxiety, and mood concerns in a focused way.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experience, then suggest a plan and adjust it over time. Clients are invited to try techniques in sessions and use them between meetings to see what helps most.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish