Dr. Frances Yahia, LMHC

Dr. Frances Yahia is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 15 years in private practice in Florida. She holds a PhD in mental health and works with people who want clearer relationships, stronger self‑esteem, and tools to cope with life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a spiritual psychology perspective to her work.

Her clinical life includes writing books about the subconscious, the inner child, family relationships, romantic partnerships, and spiritual journeys. She also leads retreats and workshops and teaches depth psychology at the college level. These roles inform how she structures sessions and the themes she often addresses.

In sessions she focuses on everyday problems like communication breakdowns, intimacy worries, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. She helps people talk through feelings of abandonment, shame, guilt, or isolation and supports practical steps for handling money strain, midlife transitions, and life purpose questions.

Her approach blends reflective exploration with actionable work. Conversations may look at past patterns, inner beliefs, and current behavior so clients can try different ways of relating and managing stress. Dr. Yahia emphasizes collaboration and invites people to set goals they can measure and adjust.

Clients often come for relationship or family concerns, body image and attachment issues, or for help living with chronic pain, illness, or disability. She frames therapy around the person’s real life and daily challenges, helping them build clearer responses and steadier routines.

Approaches that meet relationship and life change challenges

Dr. Yahia integrates evidence‑based techniques with a spiritual psychology lens to address relationship and identity concerns. One common strand looks at attachment patterns and how early relationships shape present behavior; this helps people understand why they react strongly in intimate moments and offers alternatives to repeated patterns.

Another focus examines the inner child and subconscious beliefs that affect self‑esteem and body image. Sessions of this kind help clients identify limiting beliefs and practice new ways of speaking to themselves and relating to others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to test which methods fit their needs and goals, adjusting as progress and preferences emerge. Clients and therapist decide together what to try next based on what changes are wanted and what feels tolerable.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, save travel time, and allow for shorter check‑in meetings when schedules are tight. It can also let people keep continuity of care when life events make in‑person visits difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.