Iliana Prieto, LMFT

Iliana Prieto is a Florida-licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience. She works primarily with Spanish-speaking or bilingual clients. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, grief and loss, self-esteem, motivation, and depression. Iliana emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her work.

She shapes conversations and treatment plans to fit each person's situation. Sessions center on clear, direct talk about what matters most to the client. That may include looking at current relationship patterns, working through grieving processes, or building confidence and daily motivation.

Iliana uses a mix of practical approaches depending on the client’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow the client's agenda, cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally-focused ideas to address painful feelings in relationships. Narrative and existential perspectives help people find meaning and rewrite the stories they tell about themselves.

Her background includes two decades of practice serving Spanish speakers in Florida. She asks clients to be active partners in planning goals and next steps. Iliana acknowledges that beginning therapy can feel difficult and validates that first step as meaningful.

Before booking, readers should confirm current session options and scheduling details to match their needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Iliana uses client-centered work to listen closely and follow each person's priorities. That approach focuses on understanding a person's experience and shaping sessions around their goals. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people attend to strong feelings in relationships and repair painful patterns between partners or family members.

Narrative and cognitive behavioral ideas are often combined in her sessions to help people rewrite unhelpful stories and test small changes in thinking and behavior. Narrative work helps a person see their life story from a different angle, while cognitive behavioral strategies offer practical steps to change thoughts and routines that make daily life harder.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and personal preferences. The first few sessions are used to try different ways of working and agree on a plan together.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow for more flexible scheduling. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for your routine and communication style.