Ana Budeguer, LMHC

Ana Budeguer is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. Ana speaks both English and Spanish and draws on her own immigrant background to understand the stress of adapting to a new country.

She focuses on building a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through painful memories and current problems. Sessions emphasize listening, clarifying what matters most, and working toward practical changes that fit daily life. Ana encourages small steps that add up to better communication, clearer boundaries, and more emotional stability.

Her approach pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns, somatic work to notice the body’s signals, and trauma-focused strategies when past harm affects present life. She adapts these methods to each person’s needs rather than following a single formula.

People commonly bring concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, infidelity, caregiver stress, immigration-related strain, or isolation. Ana helps with painful transitions like divorce or loss and supports those rebuilding life purpose after upheaval. She aims to make therapy a practical resource, not just a place to talk.

Clients begin by identifying concrete goals and then try modest experiments between sessions. Ana stays focused on what helps someone feel more steady and able to handle everyday challenges.

How Ana’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and routines that make relationships harder. In short exercises clients learn to test beliefs and try new behaviors that improve communication and reduce reactivity.

Psychodynamic work looks at recurring patterns that show up across relationships. This approach helps people recognize old ways of relating that no longer serve them and opens room for different choices in close connections.

Somatic therapy pays attention to bodily sensations tied to stress and trauma. Simple body-focused techniques can reduce tension, help regulate emotions, and make it easier to stay present in difficult conversations.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and the plan is adjusted.

Session format details are not specified in the provided biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets someone continue care after relocating within the same licensing region, but be sure to verify practical scheduling and format details ahead of time.