Positive Psychology Therapy (DBT) in Greenacres, and Online Across Florida
You don’t have to wait for things to feel better.
What is Positive Psychology?
Think of positive psychology as the activation of your psychological immune system. Positive psychology emphasizes flourishing, wellbeing, resilience, and hope. It is a research-supported, strengths-based approach.
Positive psychology is about finding meaning and satisfaction by focusing on what feels right within you, rather than only dwelling on what feels wrong. It’s more of an internal focus than an external focus.
This approach does not discount what you feel is wrong in your life or what feels wrong in your spirit. Instead, it seeks to look at your inherent strengths - capabilities you have forgotten or may not realize you have.
One of the most common questions I’m asked about using Positive Psychology is:
“Will this be vague or "woo-woo"? I need concrete tools and strategies?”
Woo-woo isn’t really my style.
This work is action-oriented. We get specific about what makes life worthwhile for you—clarifying your values, identifying activities that create fulfillment, and building new patterns outside of the session. It moves beyond insight into real-life change. We often use structured exercises and reflection, similar to other practical approaches.
How Does Positive Psychology Work?
Positive psychology isn’t about forced positivity or pretending things are fine when they’re not. It’s about expanding the focus beyond what’s wrong to include:
what actually makes your life feel meaningful.
what gives you energy instead of draining it.
what you want more of—not just less of.
This is where therapy shifts from problem-solving to building something intentional.
What is a session like with Positive Psychology?
We get specific about what makes life feel worthwhile for you. That might include:
clarifying your values and what you want your life to stand for
identifying activities, relationships, and habits that support your well-being
building routines that increase energy instead of depleting it
using targeted exercises, readings, and tools between sessions
This is one area where your between-session work really matters.
You’ll have structured ways to:
reflect
experiment
and build new patterns outside of session.
The Benefits of Positive Psychology: How It Helps in Real Life
Perhaps you’ve spent a lot of time trying to fix what’s wrong.
Managing stress.
Supressing anxiety.
Working through problems.
Trying to get back to baseline.
And maybe you’ve made progress—but it still feels like something is missing. Not a crisis. Just… not quite what you want your life to feel like.
If therapy only focuses on problems, you can end up becoming very good at managing them…without ever building a life that feels satisfying. Positive psychology fills that gap.
It helps you:
recognize your capabilities
increase your sense of agency
and actively create the kind of life you want to be living
This kind of work helps you:
identify what actually matters to you (not what you think should matter).
form deeper, more meaningful social connections.
increase your resilience so stress doesn’t take over everything and you recover from adversity faster.
cultivate positive emotions, leading to more joy in daily activities.
discover better mechanisms for handling stress, reducing the negative impact of challenging situations and recover from adversity faster.
feel more engaged in your life instead of just managing it, leading to higher productivity and success at work or school.
find greater life satisfaction and a sense of purpose.
Research tells us that there’s a direct connections between mental health and physical health. Cultivating positive emotions has been shown to:
lower mortality rates from cardiovascular disease.
reduce risks of infection.
improve physical health outcomes, including better sleep and immunity.
Who Does Positive Psychology Work Best For?
This approach tends to resonate with you if you:
are functioning, but not feeling fulfilled.
have done problem-focused work and want something more.
want to build meaning, not just reduce stress.
are open to structured exercises and reflection.
want therapy to move beyond insight into real-life change.
If you’re ready to move beyond just managing problems and start building something that feels meaningful, this work gives you a way to do that intentionally.
We can start creating that shift - together.
How Positive Psychology Fits into My Overall Approach
Positive psychology integrates naturally with everything else we do.
We often combine it with:
and even Twelve-Step Facilitation.
So you’re not just managing challenges—you’re also:
building resilience.
increasing satisfaction.
and creating a life that actually feels like it fits.
Why I Specialize in Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology isn’t just about pretending to be happy or forcing a positive mindset. That isn’t realistic, so it isn’t practical — not in my experience. But we’re not aiming for forced positivity or asking you to ignore what’s difficult.
Our goal is to expand the focus beyond just managing problems to intentionally building a life that feels meaningful and fulfilling. It’s about building resilience and satisfaction, not playacting at happiness as if you’re performing for an audience.
The problem is, most people are so wrapped up in handling life’s day-to-day challenges that intentionality seems like one of those goals you put off for “someday when I have time.”
That’s why I pursued specialized training in Positive Psychology — so I could help you turn someday into today.
I use Positive Psychology in my practice because:
The research shows how well it works.
I’ve had years of experience using Positive Psychology to help clients battle addiction and anxiety and enhance their personal growth.
I've witnessed firsthand the shift in my clients’ sense of happiness and fulfillment when they incorporate Positive Psychology into their lives.
Take the first step.
If you’re interested in a Positive Psychology approach to therapy and you’re looking for a therapist who can help you, reach out and let me know you’d like to schedule an appointment.
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12:00PM-9:00PM Seven Days a Week
Video sessions on Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays only. Phone and text-based therapy seven days a week.