Lissette Argenal
Hello! My name is Lissette Argenal, and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. Taking the step to seek therapy takes courage, and I am so glad you are here.
I also offer Holistic Approaches (Spiritual or Faith Based therapy, with different Christian denominations) ONLY BY PATIENT REQUEST.
For over eight years, I have worked with individuals as they go through life transitions, work through emotional pain, and heal relationship struggles. I earned my Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling in 2015. Since then, I have dedicated my practice to creating a safe harbor—a space where you can feel truly seen, heard, and valued exactly as you are. A Safe, Compassionate Approach to Healing My counseling style is based in genuine warmth, empathy, and cultural sensitivity. I provide a judgment-free space where you can finally exhale. While I bring deep, attentive listening to our sessions, I am not a passive observer. I offer compassionate feedback, gentle support, and collaborative problem-solving to help you redirect your challenges into opportunities for growth. My Philosophy: You are the true expert of your own life. You know your story better than anyone else. Because of this, I won’t give you unsolicited advice or tell you what to do like a friend might. Instead, I am here to gently guide you toward your own inner wisdom using evidence based approaches and insight focused exploration. Together, we will explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors—uncovering deep insight so you can build healthier, long-lasting coping mechanisms. Who I Am Here to Support I specialize in working with individual adults who are ready to explore their inner world and work through emotional challenges in a secure, virtual environment. (To ensure the highest quality of care in an online setting, I focus strictly on individual therapy and do not work with couples, acute crises, or higher-level psychiatric care.)
First session
We might be a great fit if you are seeking support with: • Daily Life struggles: I specialize in areas of depression, chronic stress, generalized anxiety, specific phobias, or low self-esteem and body image concerns. • Healing Relational Wounds: Overcoming relationship struggles, attachment or abandonment fears, codependency, communication barriers, and the lasting impacts of past trauma or abuse. • Life’s Transitions: Processing grief and loss, understanding impulsivity, major life changes, and rediscovering your self-love and life purpose. • Your Unique Worldview: I honor your personal background and beliefs. Whether you are looking for a nonspiritual approach, holistic integration, or Christian-based counseling, I adapt our sessions to align with your comfort and values. I will never push my personal beliefs onto you. What can you expect in you therapy sessions? Your First Session: Honoring Your Human Experience It is completely normal to feel nervous, awkward, or anxious before starting therapy. Reaching out takes vulnerability, and I validate that courage. In our first session, we will simply focus on getting to know one another at a comfortable pace. We will explore what brought you to therapy, review your personal history, and talk about your steps for healing, and developing treatment plan goals or referrals. Most importantly, this is a time to build trust and ensure you feel safe. We will also review scheduling and the confidentiality of our space. Ongoing Sessions: Doing the Inner Work During our continuous work together, you will be encouraged to talk about your feelings and experiences at your own pace: You’ll be encouraged to share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, allowing the therapist to understand your unique perspective. • Moving at Your Pace: We will move at your pace; I will never push you to discuss painful memories before you feel emotionally ready. • Gentle Pattern Recognition: Together, we will uncover or identify the underlying connections between your thoughts, feelings, and actions. The therapist will help you identify patterns in your thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and make connections between them. • Coping skill-Building: You will learn or create new skills or techniques for managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and situations. • Reviewing Goals and Monitoring Progress: We will periodically review your therapy goals to celebrate progress and adjust our treatment plan as needed. • (Note: If we find that progress is stuck due to life stressors or fit, I will offer clinical recommendations or warm referrals to ensure you get the additional care you need by a licensed professional.) How Can you tell therapy is working? Recognizing Your Healing: Healing is not a straight line, and part of the process involves gently turning toward the feelings and memories you may have spent years trying to avoid. You will know therapy is working when you notice small, meaningful changes (this could take months, years), and look forward to attend therapy. You will feel a little more resilient in stressful situations, experiencing healthier dynamics in your relationships, finding relief from heavy symptoms, and actually looking forward to our time together. Several factors that can contribute to a lack of progress in therapy, include ineffective therapy approach or inability to express what is working for you, resistance to change, lack of commitment and collaboration, unrealistic expectations, life stressors.
Strengths
The greatest strengths I bring to our sessions are human presence, warmth, empathy, compassion, and genuine care. To protect the space of our therapeutic relationship, I strictly limit the use of AI recording or transcription tools in my practice as a safeguard. When you share your deepest vulnerabilities, you deserve the reassuring presence of a real human being—not an algorithm feeding a database. Your voice, your story, and your data are safe here. Clinical Disclaimer about AI AI chatbots and "AI coaches" are statistical text-prediction engines—not medical devices or licensed human therapists. They are not regulated by medical boards, lack human clinical judgment, and do not possess the ethical boundaries necessary for mental health treatment. Because these models lack the ability to conduct real-world reality testing, using AI for mental health support or reality grounding carries significant risks—including the potential to unintentionally amplify delusions, induce or escalate psychotic symptoms, isolate individuals from genuine human care, and compromise privacy. For these reasons, AI is never utilized or offered in my practice as a safeguard to human clinical care, coaching, therapy, or mental health treatment . The Grow Therapy portal is utilized strictly as a virtual location. Authentic human presence while in therapy or preparing for therapy is non-negotiable. The therapist is not responsible for AI usage by clients outside of our therapy sessions. The therapist is not responsible for any AI-driven administrative features, AI automated documentation, or AI summaries utilized by the Grow Therapy platform or any AI training in anonymity without the therapist consent.
Ideal clients
Adults that are ready to work through their emotional issues, and need individual therapy (No Couples) My mental health specialties and Sub-specialities are: — Individual adults struggling with depression, stress, anxiety, phobias. Motivation, self-esteem, body image, and confidence. — Individual adults with relationship issues (No Couples), co-dependency, attachment issues, abandonment issues, communication problems, self-love, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, impulsivity, life changes and life purpose. I also have specialty with additional populations: Christian-based therapy or holistic approach. Non-religious therapist.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I’ve been using CBT in for the past five years. It’s helped clients challenge reoccurring thoughts and manage their anxiety. We’ll use CBT to recognize how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other. We’ll then use that knowledge to change your thinking patterns, which will help you lead a less anxious and stressed life.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- FloridaLicense MH20369