About Romina Barrientos, LMHC

Childhood experiences and the way we were parented impact our current parenting beliefs, reactions, and patterns. In this approach, we explore how these internalized beliefs influence day-to-day parenting choices and interactions with our children. The work supports parents in becoming more aware, intentional, and emotionally present, while developing the ability to respond rather than react. The goal is to foster more mindful, connected, and emotionally attuned relationships with their children.

Using developmentally appropriate activities, creative expression, games, storytelling, and connection-based interventions (virtual board games and video games), telehealth sessions help children build emotional regulation, confidence, coping skills, and healthy communication. 

Telehealth may be a great fit for:

• Busy families balancing school and activities
• Teens who feel more comfortable opening up at home
• Children who experience anxiety around transitions or appointments
• Families located anywhere in Florida

Adlerian-informed, directive experiential therapy is a structured, goal-oriented approach that helps clients connect with their inner child and explore emotional patterns through creative and experiential methods rather than traditional talk therapy alone. Sessions are interactive and tailored to each client’s therapeutic goals, focusing on insight, emotional processing, and the development of new relational patterns.

Rooted in Adlerian theory, this approach also emphasizes the importance of belonging and community as essential to healing and psychological wellbeing.

This type of therapy helps clients explore the stories they hold about themselves and how these narratives have been shaped by early experiences, relationships, and life events. It supports clients in gently separating their identity from the challenges they are facing, so that problems are understood as experiences they are moving through rather than defining who they are. Through reflective dialogue and meaning-making, clients are guided in identifying limiting beliefs and expanding more compassionate, empowering narratives that align with who they actually want to become.

Mindfulness is a scientifically supported practice that helps clients increase present-moment awareness, reduce stress, and improve emotional regulation by training attention and awareness in a non-judgmental way. In sessions, this approach helps clients move from states of dysregulation to a greater sense of calm and grounding by engaging the body and breath as anchors to the present moment. Romina incorporates techniques such as deep breathing, guided imagery, body scans, and body awareness to help clients reconnect with their internal experience safely and gently.