Tampa Bay Area Counseling

Tampa Bay Area Counseling Follow us for Mental Health Guidance👌 Helping you be the best version of yourself is what we do! 💕 Tampa, Palm Harbor, St. Petersburg and Miami.

In Person or Virtual Care As the largest Private Counseling Psychology Group based in Tampa Bay, TBAC Group's multi-specialty team of trusting, experienced, and highly trained practitioners are committed to excellence. We embrace compassion, empathy, and respect as our core foundations and take talk therapy to a new level. We are experts in what we do and serve our patients with the highest qualit

y of care using the most effective therapeutic techniques. With advanced modalities such as EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy and Gottman Methods, our practitioners are trained on an advanced level. For your convenience, we have offices in St. Petersburg, Tampa, Lutz and Palm Harbor. We provide both in-person and virtual therapy.

Sometimes, the only place that feels safe is the bathroom. Door locked. Lights off. A moment alone.If this is your go-to...
07/31/2025

Sometimes, the only place that feels safe is the bathroom. Door locked. Lights off. A moment alone.

If this is your go-to move when you're overwhelmed, it is not new to us! You're coping; creatively, quietly, and in the best way your nervous system knows how.

But is it healthy?
Yes and no.

🚪 The good: It’s a pause. A signal that your body needs space to regulate.
⏳ The challenge: It can become your only form of regulation- reinforcing avoidance instead of building new ways to feel safe, seen, and supported.

Therapy can help you expand your toolbox
✨ Learn how to ground without needing to hide
✨ Understand your stress response- without shame
✨ Build regulation skills you can use anywhere

At TBAC, we use trauma-informed therapy, somatic techniques, and evidence-based approaches like CBT and DBT to help you move from escape to empowerment.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, hopeless, or even guilty thinking about the climate crisis, you're not being dramatic.W...
07/29/2025

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, hopeless, or even guilty thinking about the climate crisis, you're not being dramatic.

What you're feeling has a name: climate anxiety.

It’s that deep sense of unease when the headlines feel too heavy. When the planet’s future feels personal. Because it is personal.

But when that fear starts to feel paralyzing, isolating, or all-consuming… it might be time to get support.

At TBAC, we work with clients who carry the emotional weight of global issues- like the climate crisis.

We help you hold space for both the fear and the hope. From shutdown ➡️ to action, from dread ➡️ to groundedness & from hopeless ➡️ to steady.

Social media has a way of making you feel like you’re late to your own life.📱 Someone’s landing promotions✈️ Someone’s t...
07/23/2025

Social media has a way of making you feel like you’re late to your own life.

📱 Someone’s landing promotions
✈️ Someone’s traveling non-stop
🏡 Someone’s buying their dream home

And suddenly, even your quiet wins feel... small.

But here’s the truth: You’re not falling behind. You’re just being flooded with curated timelines and forgetting that yours is valid too.

What the feed doesn’t show:
🌱 Healing that happens slowly
🌱 Growth that doesn’t go viral
🌱 Progress that looks like rest or starting over

You don’t need to catch up. You don’t need to be louder, faster, shinier. You need space to move at your own pace and permission to trust it.

When we think about healing, we often picture calm, clarity, and control.But the reality is that healing can look like c...
07/19/2025

When we think about healing, we often picture calm, clarity, and control.

But the reality is that healing can look like confusion, discomfort, and emotional overload, especially when you’ve spent years avoiding those emotions in the first place.

In therapy, we don’t rush to “fix” what’s messy. We sit with it.

✅ We unpack patterns you didn’t realize were protective.
✅ We explore reactions that once kept you safe but may now be holding you back.

Healing isn’t linear, and it isn’t always pretty. But it is possible, especially when you’re supported by a therapist who understands trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and the real work of emotional integration.

At TBAC, our approach blends trauma-informed care with somatic therapy, CBT, and DBT tailored to what you need, at your pace. 🩵

We often associate emotional dysregulation with being “too emotional” or “too reactive.” But in reality, it can look mu...
07/16/2025

We often associate emotional dysregulation with being “too emotional” or “too reactive.” But in reality, it can look much quieter than you think:

▶️ Shutting down during conflict
▶️ Feeling numb instead of sad
▶️ Snapping at small things, then feeling guilty
▶️ Difficulty identifying what you're feeling at all
▶️ Struggling to return to baseline after stress

Remember: This isn’t about being dramatic!! Emotional regulation isn’t about being “calm”, it’s about being connected to yourself. 🧠

Therapy helps you build awareness, tools, and capacity, so your emotions don’t have to hijack your day, your relationships, or your sense of self.

At TBAC, we support this work through trauma-informed care, emotion regulation strategies, and approaches like DBT and CBT.

Not every season will feel clear or comfortable. Sometimes you wake up and the things that used to anchor you feel unfam...
07/11/2025

Not every season will feel clear or comfortable.

Sometimes you wake up and the things that used to anchor you feel unfamiliar- your motivation dips, your energy shifts, your sense of self feels… blurry.

That doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you’re human.

Transitions, grief, burnout, big life changes: they can all make you feel like you’ve lost touch with who you “should” be.

At TBAC, we remind people: the goal isn’t to snap back to who you were- it’s to be curious about who you’re becoming.You’re allowed to grow, pause, rest, and change your mind about what fits you now.

If you don’t feel like yourself- it doesn’t mean you’re lost. It means you’re in process. ✨

Somewhere along the way, we learned that if we’re not busy, we’re falling behind. But the truth is: your body and mind a...
07/09/2025

Somewhere along the way, we learned that if we’re not busy, we’re falling behind. But the truth is: your body and mind are wired for pause.

Rest is where your nervous system recalibrates.
👏🏻Where your thoughts settle.
👏🏻Where your energy restores so you can actually show up for what matters.

Burnout isn’t proof you’re working hard- it’s proof you’ve been asked to ignore your limits for too long.

At , we remind people that rest is part of resilience. You don’t have to earn it- you just have to honor it.

Take the nap. Close the laptop. Say no when you need to. The world can wait... your wellbeing can’t. ✨

Not every relationship question has an easy answer but some questions are worth asking.If you’re wondering “Should I eve...
07/03/2025

Not every relationship question has an easy answer but some questions are worth asking.

If you’re wondering “Should I even be in this?” pause and check in:
✔️ Do I feel emotionally safe?
✔️ Am I seen and heard without explaining myself?
✔️ Can I be my full self here?

Love shouldn’t mean shrinking who you are.
If you’re feeling unsure, therapy can help you sort through what’s yours to heal and what’s no longer yours to hold. 🫶🏻

Let us help you figure it out. 🤗

Pride isn’t just a party- it’s also a space for rest, reflection, and regulation. 💛 That’s why our team at TBAC Group wi...
06/26/2025

Pride isn’t just a party- it’s also a space for rest, reflection, and regulation. 💛

That’s why our team at TBAC Group will be at the St. Pete Pride Festival on June 28th, offering a Regulation Station designed to support emotional wellbeing in the middle of celebration.

We’re proud to show up not just with our tools, but with our people. 💫 (Yes, that’s our real team in the photo- therapists, advocates, humans.)

Come cool down, breathe deep, and take a mindful pause:
✨ Free cooling towels
✨ Fidget & sensory tools
✨ Aroma-based mindfulness
✨ Basket raffle + a selfie moment

We believe healing belongs wherever people gather and this Pride, we’re honored to hold space for the LGBTQIA+ community in the wild.
Come find us. Come rest. Come as you are. ❤️

We’ve all heard it — “never go to bed angry.” But here’s the truth: not every hard moment needs to be fixed by midnight....
06/20/2025

We’ve all heard it — “never go to bed angry.” But here’s the truth: not every hard moment needs to be fixed by midnight.

Sometimes, the most loving thing you can do is pause. Step back. Sleep. Let your nervous system reset. 🤍

In the middle of conflict, you don’t aim for clarity, you aim for defense.

At TBAC, we help couples unlearn these rigid “relationship rules” and create space for healthier rhythms:
✨ Rest before repair.
✨ Regulate before resolving.
✨ Pause before you press on.

You don’t have to solve everything before bed. You just have to come back to the table with love when you’re ready. 💗

Ever reread an old message, a journal entry, or just replay a memory and suddenly see it differently? 😳 Giving your past...
06/18/2025

Ever reread an old message, a journal entry, or just replay a memory and suddenly see it differently? 😳
 
Giving your past self the compassion they didn’t know they deserved. That’s healing.
 
Therapy helps you do exactly that: to not erase the past, but read it with context, care, and clarity. And maybe, for the first time… root for the main character. ✨
 
If this feels like where you are right now — or where you want to be — we’re holding space for you at . 💛
 

Address

3607 US-19 ALT
Palm Harbor, FL
34683

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm

Telephone

+17277324305

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Dr. Diaz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in treating anxiety disorders utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Techniques. She has 14 yeas of experience both in the United States and Internationally and works with children, adolescents, and adults. She treats patients with; Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Social-Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety, Thrichotillomania (hair pulling), and Excoriation (skin-picking) Disorder. She uses a collaborative approach and works closely with psychiatrists and physicians

Emanuel Diaz is a Navy veteran who separated from the service with an honorable discharge to pursue a career in the mental health field. He is certified by the American Institute of Healthcare Professionals as an Attention Deficit Consultant Specialist. Emanuel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He provides ADHD psychoeducation, organizational tools, time management techniques, self-esteem improvement and methods to overcome challenges of living with ADHD and living life to its full potential. He has a collaborative approach and works closely with clients and parents. Emanuel works with children, adolescents, and adults.