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Dr. Tiffany Vastardis

FL LMHC MH20180
Credentials
FL LMHC MH20180
NPI Number
1275120271
Location
Florida
Languages
English
Dr. Tiffany Vastardis

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17 years experience | Counselor of Color | Intl Clients Welcome
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About Dr. Tiffany Vastardis

Hi, I’m Dr. V.! As a nationally board-certified and licensed therapist in Florida, I bring 17 years of dedicated experience supporting individuals through complex emotional landscapes. My practice centers around creating flexible, compassionate, and affirming spaces for clients navigating diverse challenges—from various mental health disorders to harm reduction and interpersonal healing.

Through a client-centered lens, I specialize in addressing a wide range of experiences, with particular expertise in trauma recovery, complicated relationship dynamics, substance misuse, and life transitions. I’m committed to supporting adolescents, adults, and couples with personalized treatment plans infusing evidence-based techniques, such as DBT, ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness-Based Therapy with expressive and integrative approaches, including Narrative and Existential Therapies.

My therapeutic work embraces multicultural perspectives and creates inclusive environments for those exploring aspects of sexual well-being and confronting unique identity challenges. By creating a non-judgmental and empathetic therapeutic relationship, I strive to help clients develop meaningful strategies for self-understanding, emotional resilience, and positive change.

I believe in empowering clients to discover their inherent strengths, process difficult emotions, and cultivate authentic connections—both with themselves and others. Together, we’ll explore your experiences with curiosity and care—and hopefully share a laugh or two along the way!

Licenses

LMHC
MH20180

Professional experience

  • Addictions
  • Depression
  • Relationship issues
  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Trauma and abuse

Additional Focus Areas

  • Abandonment
  • Adoption and foster care
  • Antisocial personality
  • Attachment issues
  • Autism and Asperger Syndrome
  • Avoidant personality
  • BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
  • Blended family issues
  • Body image
  • Caregiver issues and stress
  • Chronic pain, illness, and disability
  • Co-morbidity
  • Codependency
  • Commitment issues
  • Communication problems
  • Control issues
  • Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
  • Dependent personality
  • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
  • Dissociation
  • Divorce and separation
  • Domestic violence
  • Drug and alcohol addiction
  • Eating and food-related issues
  • Emptiness
  • Family of origin issues
  • Family problems
  • Fatherhood issues
  • First responder issues
  • Forgiveness
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Guilt and shame
  • HIV / AIDS
  • Hoarding
  • Impulsivity
  • Infidelity
  • Isolation / loneliness
  • Jealousy
  • Life purpose
  • Men's issues
  • Midlife crisis
  • Money and financial issues
  • Mood disorders
  • Multicultural concerns
  • Narcissism
  • Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
  • Panic disorder and panic attacks
  • Paranoia
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
  • Self-harm
  • Self-love
  • Sex addiction
  • Sexual assault and abuse
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Sexuality
  • Smoking / vaping cessation
  • Social anxiety and phobia
  • Somatization
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Trichotillomania
  • Visually impaired
  • Women's issues
  • Workplace issues
  • Young adult issues

Clinical Approaches

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Mindfulness Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy
  • Systemic Therapy
  • Trauma-Focused Therapy

Languages

  • English
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