Steady Roots Family Therapy
Therapy for couples, families, and individuals seeking stronger relationships, clearer perspective, and steadier ground.
“The client is the expert in their own life. My goal is to help them think differently about what they are experiencing and what they want to change.”
A Thoughtful Space to Work Through What Matters Most
Steady Roots Family Therapy offers a warm, supportive space to slow things down, understand what is really happening, and begin looking at challenges from a different perspective.
Vanessa Elias, LMHC, works with couples, families, and individuals who are ready to better understand their relationships, recognize their role in the process, and make meaningful changes in the way they move forward.
How Vanessa Can Help
Therapy services for individuals, couples, and families working through relationship concerns, emotional strain, and the patterns that affect how they connect.
Couples Therapy
Marriage Counseling
Relationship Counseling
Family Therapy
Anxiety and Depression
Infertility Support
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you are looking for support for your relationship, your family, or yourself, Vanessa welcomes you to reach out.
Contact Vanessa to learn more about her approach, availability, and whether Steady Roots Family Therapy may be the right fit for you.
Understanding Patterns, Relationships, and Change
Vanessa offers a family systems approach to counseling, which means she helps clients look at challenges through a broader lens. Instead of focusing only on one issue, one person, or one moment, this approach considers the patterns, relationships, roles, and dynamics that may be shaping what is happening.
In therapy, Vanessa helps clients think differently about their problems and begin to see where change may be possible. That often includes looking honestly and compassionately at the part each person plays in the process.
Her goal is not to tell clients who they are or what their life should look like. Vanessa believes the client is the expert in their own life. Therapy is a place to explore what is working, what is not working, and what the client wants to change.
Meet Vanessa Elias, LMHC
A licensed mental health counselor with a warm, thoughtful, and relationship-centered approach.
Vanessa Elias has known she wanted to be a therapist for as long as she can remember. Even in high school and college, she was often the person others turned to when they needed to talk, process something difficult, or think through how to move forward.
She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from Huron University at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, graduating with honors, before moving to Miami to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology at Barry University. After completing her graduate degree, Vanessa was asked by her professors to teach at the university level, working with both master’s level and undergraduate students.
Vanessa became licensed in 2007 and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Qualified Supervisor in the state of Florida. She is also a doctoral candidate and has completed her coursework and comprehensive exams toward a PhD in counseling with a specialization in marriage, couples, and families.
Today, Vanessa brings together her clinical training, teaching experience, and deep commitment to helping people strengthen their relationships and better understand themselves. Her style is warm, insightful, genuine, approachable, and empathetic.
Education, Experience, and Professional Background
Vanessa Elias, LMHC, brings a strong clinical and academic background to her work with clients.
Contact Vanessa
Reach out to learn more about therapy services through Steady Roots Family Therapy.
Whether you are seeking support for your relationship, your family, anxiety, depression, infertility, or a difficult season of life, Vanessa welcomes you to get in touch.
Please complete the form below, and Vanessa will respond as soon as possible. Please do not include highly sensitive personal health information in this form.
Contact Information
Phone: 645-238-7400
Email: info@steadyrootsfamilytherapy.com
Telehealth Availability: We provide sessions in office and through telehealth.
Insurance and Payment: We do not take insurance.
Important Note
This contact form is not monitored for emergencies. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
If you are in emotional distress or experiencing a mental health crisis in the United States, you can call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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