Anabel Perez
Hi, I'm Anabel. I work with young adults who are ready to grow: leveling up how you communicate, setting boundaries that stick, building self-worth, and learning to manage your emotions instead of getting hijacked by them.
I show up fully with you so you don’t feel like just another number in a system, but a person whose story deserves to be heard and honored.
Picture making decisions without the guilt spiral, saying what you need without over-explaining yourself, and handling hard moments from a calm, grounded place instead of full-on reacting. Picture relationships built on honesty and respect, including with yourself. If that sounds like what you're going for, let's connect!
First session
Our first session is really just about getting to know each other. There's no pressure to have everything figured out or say the "right" thing. We'll talk through what's been going on, what brought you to therapy, and what you're hoping to get out of it. I'll ask some questions to understand your history and current life a bit better, and you'll get a feel for how I work. By the end, we'll start shaping some goals together, but that first hour is mostly about making sure this feels like a good fit for you.
Strengths
I bring a warm, down-to-earth style paired with practical, evidence-based tools, mainly rooted in evidence-based compassion-focused therapy, so sessions feel supportive but never fluffy. I don't just want to talk about your feelings but, I do want to help you shift the patterns keeping you stuck: people-pleasing, avoidance, self-doubt, poor boundaries. I meet clients where they are, without judgment, and I'm genuinely invested in helping you achieve the needs and wants you have for your life.
Ideal clients
My ideal client is a young adult who's motivated to grow but stuck in patterns they didn't choose; people-pleasing, difficulty saying no, overthinking conversations, and avoiding conflict at the cost of their own needs. They often carry labels like "too much" or "too sensitive," struggle with boundaries and self-worth, and feel like their emotions or other people's moods dictate their day rather than the other way around. What sets them apart is a genuine readiness to look inward: they want real confidence instead of performed confidence, boundaries that don't come wrapped in guilt, and a life shaped by their own values instead of everyone else's expectations. They're not looking for quick fixes, they're ready to understand where these patterns came from and do the slower work of building something more honest in their place.
Treatment methods
Compassion Focused
Compassion-focused therapy is helpful if you’re dealing with self-criticism, shame, or depression by teaching you how to develop a more supportive and kind inner voice. It helps calm the threat system in your brain and builds emotional resilience through practicing self-compassion.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT helps by making the automatic thoughts behind people-pleasing visible, the mind-reading, catastrophizing, and "shoulds" that make saying no feel dangerous — and then testing them against reality instead of just accepting them as fact; it also targets the avoidance itself through practical tools like assertiveness practice and boundary-setting experiments, so clients build the tolerance for discomfort that guilt and conflict-avoidance have been blocking, while digging down to the core belief (often something like "my worth depends on being needed") that's actually driving the pattern underneath.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- FloridaLicense MH26518