About Tiffany
Dr. Tiffany Vastardis helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and depression. She works with adults to address the everyday problems that interfere with life.
Her tone is straightforward and calm, aiming to make therapy feel doable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Dr. Vastardis uses clear, practical methods that clients can try between sessions.
She practices Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside Dialectical Behavior Therapy and attachment-focused work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills, values-based choices, and making sense of difficult patterns in relationships. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She spends time listening, asking concrete questions, and helping clients map small steps toward change.
Therapy often includes skill exercises, real-world experiments, and planning for moments that typically cause distress. Dr. Vastardis draws on 17 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor, combining evidence-based methods with narrative ideas about identity and meaning.
That experience informs practical strategies for coping with persistent anxiety, addiction-related challenges, and trauma recovery. She aims to create an affirming space for people exploring sexuality, identity, or nontraditional relationship styles. Many clients appreciate an approach that balances direct feedback with empathy.
The work is collaborative, and progress is tracked in tangible, everyday terms.
Practical approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when anxiety or cravings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation and interpersonal skills, which can be useful for intense stress and relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs. Together they will adjust the plan over time based on what helps and what feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options are meant to make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and differing comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
- Depression
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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