Meryl Galvan, LMHC

Meryl Galvan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, grief, addictions, and coping with life changes. Meryl brings a direct but compassionate manner to sessions and aims to help people find practical ways to move forward.

She uses short-term skills and longer-term work depending on each person’s needs. That can include building coping skills, improving communication, managing mood swings, and addressing sleep and intimacy problems. Meryl names approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing as tools she uses in treatment.

Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of West Florida. Meryl has 12 years of experience working with adults, adolescents, families, and couples in various clinical settings. She has also supervised clinical teams in outpatient care.

In sessions she keeps the work active and focused. Clients can expect concrete strategies, gentle challenge, and time to practice new skills between meetings. The goal is to leave therapy with tools that help now and later.

Meryl emphasizes collaboration. She partners with each person to set goals and track progress. That makes therapy a shared effort rather than something the person must do alone.

How certain approaches can help in online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life steps. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by teaching practical strategies to change thinking and behavior.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories so those memories create less distress. It is commonly used when trauma, grief, or strong emotional reactions are a central concern.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness. This can help with anxiety, anger, and ongoing stress by building steadier responses to difficult feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session formats before booking so you know how meetings are scheduled. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can work with people across distances while tailoring session length and focus to everyday life demands.