Tampa Bay Area Counseling

Tampa Bay Area Counseling Your local Counselors of Tampa Bay 👌 Helping you be the best version of yourself is what we do! 💕 Lutz, Palm Harbor, St. Petersburg Carrollwood and Westchase.

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 quality 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.

Growth rarely looks dramatic. It’s a quiet rewiring, the kind that replaces urgency with ease. Therapy helps you move to...
11/12/2025

Growth rarely looks dramatic. It’s a quiet rewiring, the kind that replaces urgency with ease.

Therapy helps you move towards “The Shift”. 🫂

Part 2 | Get to Know Your Therapist Series 💫We know that finding the right therapist starts with connection- which is wh...
11/07/2025

Part 2 | Get to Know Your Therapist Series 💫

We know that finding the right therapist starts with connection- which is why we’re excited to share more about the amazing clinicians on our team through this series!

In this part, meet Patricia Cmielewski, MSW, Registered Clinical Social Work Intern, who helps clients navigate life’s challenges with empathy, patience, and evidence-based care. Her approach focuses on creating a safe space for healing, growth, and lasting change. 🌿

Follow along as we continue introducing the compassionate professionals who make our community what it is. 💚

There’s a quiet pressure to turn every hardship into a lesson. To find meaning, growth, or purpose in the pain.But not e...
10/31/2025

There’s a quiet pressure to turn every hardship into a lesson. To find meaning, growth, or purpose in the pain.

But not everything we go through needs to teach us something. Some seasons just need to be survived with gentleness, not analysis. 💚

In therapy, we often remind our clients: healing doesn’t always look like progress. Sometimes it looks like compassion…sitting with what hurts, without rushing to fix or explain it.

Because the truth is, pain doesn’t always need a purpose. It just needs a place to be held.

You can do this- schedule 10 minutes of unstructured quiet each day. 🙌🏻 Not meditation. Not scrolling. Just stillness.Wh...
10/29/2025

You can do this- schedule 10 minutes of unstructured quiet each day. 🙌🏻

Not meditation. Not scrolling. Just stillness.
When your brain isn’t required to process or perform, it begins to regulate- lowering cortisol, improving focus, and restoring emotional balance.

Therapists often call this “cognitive rest,” and it’s one of the simplest ways to prevent physical and mental exhaustion before it starts.

A small pause = A big recalibration. 🩵

✨ New Series Alert: Get to Know Your Therapist! ✨We’re kicking off a biweekly spotlight series to help you meet the amaz...
10/24/2025

✨ New Series Alert: Get to Know Your Therapist! ✨

We’re kicking off a biweekly spotlight series to help you meet the amazing counselors behind TBAC. Each post will highlight one of our therapists- their background, specialties, and what inspires their work 💛

First up, meet Eric Berman, LCSW!

Eric uses a strength-based, nonjudgmental approach and loves working with children, families, and young adults. He focuses on anxiety, depression, work-life balance, and bipolar disorder, using CBT to help clients connect thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for better mental health 🌿

Follow along every other week as we introduce more of our team!

10/22/2025

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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Meet the Staff

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.