About Tiffany
Dr. Tiffany Vastardis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. She has 17 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, and addiction.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful or confusing experiences. Dr. Vastardis focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier in daily life.
Her work blends body-focused awareness with talk therapy.
Background and approach
She uses somatic approaches to help people notice how emotions show up in the body, and pairs that with evidence-based skills from ACT and CBT. This combination is meant to help people manage distress and respond differently to old patterns. Dr.
Vastardis follows a client-centered stance that keeps each plan personal. She listens for what matters to the individual and adjusts methods to fit their goals and pace. Sessions often include simple exercises, grounding techniques, and conversations about relationship patterns and attachment.
She has particular experience with abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care histories, and complex relationship dynamics. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness or pain, body image concerns, codependency, and questions around sexual preferences and kink culture. Therapy with Dr.
Vastardis emphasizes collaboration. She helps people build skills, name patterns, and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Her style is direct but warm, practical but flexible.
How somatic and evidence-based methods work online
Somatic work invites attention to bodily sensations and movement to notice how stress and emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle awareness, breathing, and grounding practices that help reduce tension and increase self-regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and learning small actions that align with those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it emphasizes workable steps toward what matters most.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try different methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the individual's needs and comfort level, with room to mix body-focused work and skill-based strategies.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, keep momentum between sessions, and practice techniques in everyday settings. The variety of formats also lets people choose how they feel most comfortable connecting while working toward clearer patterns and steadier coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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