About Berekat
Berekat Petros is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of clinical experience. He holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from Florida while drawing on past work in Texas. He aims to help people manage worry, mood shifts, addiction, and life changes using clear, practical steps.
He meets people where they are and listens first. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Berekat uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs rather than a one-size-fits-all method. Berekat often helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction. He also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, relationship tension, parenting stress, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
He works with issues that overlap, like chronic illness, caregiver stress, and problems with body image or self-esteem. In sessions he uses tools from client-centered work to build rapport and from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and motivation-focused strategies are used when someone needs skills for staying grounded or finding reasons to change.
Solution-focused ideas help people set concrete goals and track progress. Berekat offers care in English and Amharic. He combines years of practice with plain language and straightforward techniques.
The focus is on practical changes that fit into daily life and on helping people regain steadiness when things feel overwhelming.
How Berekat Uses Practical Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy starts with listening and reflecting. It helps people feel heard and shapes the work around their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Berekat will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether to lean more on thought-focused CBT, mindfulness skills, motivation strategies, or problem-solving steps and then adjust as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, homework check-ins, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English, Amharic
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