Meet Our Therapists in Tampa, St. Petersburg & Sarasota
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Elena Khutaba, Graduate Counseling Intern
St. Petersburg | Teen & Relationship Anxiety
ABOUT
Elena is a graduate counseling intern who believes clients know themselves best and helps them discover the answers they already hold. She works with children ages 5 and up, teens, young adults, and couples navigating anxiety, relationship patterns, and life transitions.
SPECIALTIES
Elena focuses on anxiety and overthinking, relationship anxiety, attachment issues, childhood trauma, people-pleasing, and self-worth. She incorporates parts work informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills. She sees clients under the supervision of Amanda Farris, LCSW-QS, FL License #SW17320. St. Petersburg office.
Kimberly Peters, LMHC
Tampa | Couples , Sex & Trauma Therapist
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Kimberly Peters is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps Tampa couples heal from infidelity, rebuild trust, and strengthen intimacy. She also treats adults living with complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and grief, using EMDR and somatic work to help painful experiences lose their grip.
SPECIALTIES
Kimberly specializes in infidelity and affair recovery, couples strength-building, sexual wellness and intimacy, premarital counseling with PREPARE/ENRICH, and complex PTSD. She is trained in EMDR through an EMDRIA-approved program with advanced master-class training, the Gottman Method, and Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy with Dr. Tammy Nelson. Her approach blends humanistic, existential, Jungian, cognitive behavioral, and somatic work into a plan built around the whole person. She works with adults and couples. Tampa office and Florida telehealth.
Kelly Kellogg, Graduate Counseling Intern
Tampa | Anxiety, Depression, Grief & Life Transitions
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Kelly works with older kids, teens, young adults, and adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, and the stress of major life transitions. Her experience spans school, community, and private practice settings, with a particular strength in helping young people and families through change and loss.
SPECIALTIES
Anxiety, depression, grief and loss, life transitions, self-esteem and identity development, and relationship and communication skills. Kelly uses CBT to identify the core beliefs behind unwanted feelings and behaviors, draws from ACT to help clients act on their values even when hard feelings are present, and brings in solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing when clients want practical, forward-moving change. Her Gottman Method training informs her work on communication and relationship patterns. She is comfortable integrating a client's faith or spirituality into the work when it matters to them. Tampa office and Florida telehealth.
Roberta Bruni, LCSW
St. Petersburg | Trauma, Addiction & Couples Therapist
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Roberta is an empathetic, compassionate, and seasoned therapist with more than two decades of experience helping adults, couples, and families. She works most often with trauma, addiction, anxiety, and couples, and also brings specialized expertise to neurodivergent adults.
SPECIALTIES
Roberta specializes in trauma, PTSD, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and infidelity recovery. She holds her MCAP, is EMDR-trained, and certified at the Master Practitioner level in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, along with certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Level 2 training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She works with adults, couples, and families.
Melissa Zentner, MS, LMHC
St. Petersburg | PTSD, Anxiety & Family Trauma Specialist
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With over ten years of clinical practice, Melissa Zentner offers integrative therapy for children, adolescents, and adults navigating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, impulse-control concerns, and depression. Her time-limited, evidence-based approach focuses on measurable symptom reduction without sacrificing depth in the therapeutic relationship.
SPECIALTIES
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, person-centered therapy, and Gottman Method Level 1. PTSD, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, generational trauma, premarital counseling, and sport psychology. Children, teens, adults, and couples. St. Petersburg office and Florida telehealth.
Samantha Wilson, MA, LMHC
Sarasota | Trauma, EMDR & Child Therapist
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Samantha offers trauma and relationship counseling for couples, adults, teens, and children at our Sarasota therapy office. Trained in EMDR and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, with experience across school-based and community care settings, she helps clients move through complex trauma, PTSD, relational stress, and life transitions. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded, balancing genuine compassion with practical tools and honest conversation so that therapy feels both supportive and meaningful.
SPECIALTIES
EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and strengths-based, collaborative approaches. Complex trauma, PTSD, couples and relational stress, anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Specialized work with couples recovering from relational distress and clients carrying long-standing trauma who are ready to feel genuinely seen and understood. Couples, adults, teens, and children. Sarasota and statewide Florida telehealth.
Julia Schwartz, MSW, Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern
St. Petersburg | Young Adult, Couples & Family Therapist
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Julia offers therapy for young adults, couples, and families at our St. Pete office. She works collaboratively with clients navigating anxiety, depression, and life transitions, helping them build coping skills and stronger relationships through evidence-based, compassionate care.
SPECIALTIES
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based approaches. Anxiety, depression, life transitions, emotional regulation, and relationship challenges. Young adults, couples, and families.