Tampa, FL Local Support & Community Resources

Shonda Berry understands that every individual deserves a safe space to discuss their concerns, fears, and struggles. She specializes in guiding clients through the healing process from grief, illness, anxiety, and depression, helping them transition through various phases of life. Shonda believes that individuals are the real experts on their own lives, and she emphasizes a collaborative therapeutic process to enhance treatment outcomes. By working together, clients can explore, challenge, and detach from thoughts, behaviors, and patterns that may hinder their progress. Shonda exhibits empathy towards those who find it challenging to share their truths with someone new. She acknowledges that the journey towards peace and healing can be long, but reassures individuals that they don't have to embark on this path alone. With Shonda's support, clients can begin their journey toward mental health wellness and discover a happier, more fulfilling life.

Devika Srivastava is a compassionate therapist based in Texas and Florida, dedicated to helping her clients navigate the complexities of life in the wake of the pandemic. She understands that increased anxiety stemming from medical issues, fear, loss, and racial injustice can make it challenging to cope. With a focus on BIPOC identity, multigenerational family dynamics, and significant life transitions, Devika prioritizes her clients’ individual goals, resonating with their unique cultures, religions, sexualities, gender identities, and values. With years of clinical, research, and assessment experience, she employs evidence-based therapeutic methods within a supportive and collaborative relationship. Devika is trained in various therapeutic modalities and offers individual, couples, and family therapy. Her specializations include addressing depression, anxiety, relational issues, adjustment disorders, grief, medical challenges, trauma, self-esteem issues, and multicultural concerns. Understanding that many feel disempowered or stigmatized when seeking support, she is committed to providing the encouragement, challenges, and skills necessary for her clients to achieve meaningful change and reach their life goals. Together, clients can embark on a transformative journey towards a more fulfilling life.

Kara Anderson, LMHC, embodies a humanistic clinical philosophy that emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the cornerstone of the counseling process. Her warm, interactive, and compassionate style fosters an environment where clients feel valued as individuals, separate from their problems. With a holistic approach to health and wellness, she focuses on achieving balance across major life domains while upholding the highest ethical standards of care. Ideal clients are those who share a belief in personal growth. At times, Kara can be direct and structured in her methods, carefully tailoring and pacing treatment to align with each client's unique needs. She is particularly sensitive to evolving the therapeutic process at the client's pace, all while encouraging advancement toward their goals. For Kara, there are no winners or losers in therapy—only opportunities to win or learn. Her commitment is to support and guide clients on a trajectory that resonates with their desired way of living. Recognizing the diverse paths people take, Kara aspires to meet clients where they are and journey with them toward their aspirations. In this safe space, she invites individuals to engage in meaningful change together.