About Elie Gonzalez, LMHC
I'm Elie, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with 17+ years of clinical experience and my own recovery since 2004.
I work with people who can see their patterns, they can predict when those patterns are coming, and still watch themselves do it anyway.
There's a gap between your narrative (the story you tell yourself) and your data (what your behavior actually proves). I call the examination of that gap the Internal Audit. That's where the real change happens... not with more insight, but with an honest comparison between what you say you want and what you actually do.
I specialize with: Relationship patterns • Trauma recovery • ADHD & emotional regulation
Currently accepting new clients in Florida via telehealth.
My Approach to Therapy & Healing
My work is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and grounded in real-life application.
I utilize CBT and other evidence-based modalities...
not to give you a clinical lecture, but to help you understand both what
you're experiencing and why, as well as tools you can use to improve your quality of life moving forward.
Together, we'll look at why you keep repeating the same relationship patterns, how past experiences shape your current emotional responses, what's actually driving your anxiety or emotional burnout, and how to rebuild self-trust and set boundaries that stick.
This isn't passive talk therapy. It's intentional, practical work, designed to move you out of survival mode and into something more grounded.
Specializing in Relationships, Complex Trauma & Anxiety
Toxic Relationship & Emotional Abuse Recovery
If you've left a toxic, controlling, or narcissistic relationship and still feel confused, exhausted, or like something is wrong with you... this is the work. We untangle the manipulation, rebuild your sense of self, and help you stop attracting the same dynamics. You're not broken. You learned to survive someone who shouldn't have had access to you.
Anxious & Avoidant Attachment Healing
Your attachment style shapes every relationship you have, with others, and with yourself. If you're stuck in cycles of chasing, withdrawing, or never quite feeling secure, attachment-focused therapy helps you trace the why and rebuild from a different place. The patterns aren't who you are. They're what you learned. They can change.
Codependency &
Boundary Work
If you're exhausted from over-giving, over-explaining, and disappearing inside other people's needs, this is where we start. We identify the patterns keeping you stuck, trace where they came from, and build a self that doesn't dissolve when someone else needs something. Boundaries aren't walls. They're the structure that makes connection actually safe.
Anxiety & Emotional Regulation
Anxiety isn't just worry... it's your nervous system stuck in overdrive. The chest tightness, the scanning, the feeling that something is wrong before anything has happened. We work on identifying what your nervous system is signaling, regulating the emotional response, and creating real calm in daily life. Not just managing symptoms, addressing the source.
ADHD & the Trauma Differential
ADHD affects more than focus. Emotional dysregulation, relationship patterns, self-worth challenges. But here's what most ADHD treatment misses: some clients whose symptoms look like ADHD are actually experiencing nervous system shutdown from chronic trauma exposure. We figure out what's actually happening before deciding how to treat it, because the wrong diagnosis sends you down the wrong path.
Complex Trauma (CPTSD) Recovery
Complex trauma isn't a single event, it's the long pattern. Childhood neglect, chronic emotional abuse, prolonged unsafe relationships. Often called CPTSD, this kind of trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the nervous system in ways single-event PTSD doesn't fully capture. We work with the layered impact, not just the symptoms, but the self that had to disappear to survive.
Religious Trauma & Spiritual Deconstruction
Addiction Recovery Support
Self-Worth & Identity Rebuilding
If you grew up inside a high-control religious system, inherited belief without choosing it, or are sorting through spiritual abuse, this work makes space to examine what was assigned to you. About God. About yourself. About what you deserve. We don't replace one doctrine with another. We rebuild a relationship with meaning, faith, or spirituality that's actually yours. Your truth is allowed to change.
Therapy for adults in recovery who want to go deeper than meetings, addressing the trauma, attachment wounds, and nervous system patterns underneath the cycles. Familiar with multiple recovery pathways including 12-step
(NA, OA, ACA, CODA, EA), SMART Recovery, and harm reduction approaches. We build what works for your actual life and beliefs, not what fits a single model.
When you've spent years shrinking yourself, people-pleasing, or defining yourself through others, rebuilding who you are takes intentional work. We help you rediscover your values, your voice, and your sense of self, not as a destination you arrive at, but as a practice you return to every day. You're allowed to take up space. You always were.
Therapy From Anywhere in Florida
All sessions are held via secure telehealth you can join from your home or anywhere you feel comfortable. No commute.
No waiting room. Just focused therapy that fits your life. Licensed to serve all of Florida.