CPT
Cognitive Processing Therapy helps identify and examine rigid or inaccurate beliefs that can develop after trauma — especially around safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy.
Online trauma & PTSD therapy in Florida
Trauma can stay loud even when life looks put together.
Evidence-based, practical therapy for adults who want past experiences to have less control over the present — without a cold or overly clinical therapy experience.
CredentialPhD, Clinical Psychology
Experience14+ years
Florida care100% virtual
Beyond Florida40+ PSYPACT states
Sometimes trauma is obvious. Sometimes it isn't.
You can be highly functional and still feel like your nervous system never got the memo that you're safe.
Trauma-related symptoms can show up in ways that are easy to dismiss, especially when you're used to pushing through. Therapy can help you understand those patterns and respond differently instead of organizing your life around avoiding reminders, staying constantly prepared, or trying to out-think every possibility.
Feeling constantly on guard
Avoiding reminders or situations
Guilt or shame that won't let go
Intrusive memories or nightmares
Irritability or emotional shutdown
Difficulty trusting yourself or others
Evidence-based trauma therapy
Treatment should have a reason behind it.
Prolonged Exposure
PE helps reduce trauma-related avoidance in a carefully paced, collaborative way so memories and reminders can become less powerful over time.
Practical CBT skills
CBT and related strategies can help with anxiety, overthinking, emotion regulation, self-doubt, and patterns that keep you feeling stuck outside the therapy hour.
A therapist who understands high-functioning stress
You don't have to be falling apart for trauma therapy to make sense.
I'm Dr. Chelsea Brieman, a Tampa-based clinical psychologist. I specialize in trauma and PTSD and frequently work with high-achieving adults who are also navigating perfectionism, burnout, anxiety, imposter syndrome, ADHD-related concerns, and depression.
My style is warm, direct, collaborative, and practical. We'll make space for what happened while also focusing on what helps you function, connect, and feel more like yourself now.
Individual psychotherapy
$250 / 55 minutes
Start with a free call$250 / 55 minutes
In-network with Aetna for eligible clients in Florida, New York, and Wisconsin. Out-of-network reimbursement may be available with other plans.
Virtual therapy across Florida
Specialized care without adding another commute to your week.
Sessions are held online through a secure video platform. I'm licensed in Florida, New York, and Wisconsin and can also provide telehealth to clients in more than 40 PSYPACT-participating states.
If you're in Florida, you can meet from home, your office, or another private location anywhere in the state.