About Us
Uplift Psychotherapy Center provides mental health counseling in-person in Maitland, Florida and virtually throughout the state of Florida. We understand that every person has their own journey and we are privileged and invested in helping you start living an overall better life. Uplift Psychotherapy Center offers therapy that is personal. We treat you as the person you are. We take a human-centered approach and show up as real people. Our goal is that you never feel alone in your individual process.
At Uplift, we are determined in showing up as real people, regardless of our titles, educational backgrounds, and clinical knowledge. Putting all of that aside, it is beyond important for us to provide an environment that is safe, where our clients understand that we all have stuff, and that you are never alone.
We know, and want it to be known, that we all are humans with so much happening. Life is filled with so many curve balls, issues, emotions- and here at Uplift we strive to assist clinically, but also provide raw and real connections dedicated to each client’s needs.
Our Team
Founder, Clinic Director
Private Practice since 2016
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Qualified Supervisor
M.S. in Clinical Psychology
Alessia Vivod, LMHC-QS
Alessia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She has 7+ years of post-graduate experience as a psychotherapist working within a variety of settings and health related issues, including depression, anxiety, substance use/abuse, eating/food disorders, workplace and adjustment stress, interpersonal conflict, parenting challenges, self esteem, grief, and trauma. She is also trained and licensed in clinical supervision. Alessia is 1 in about 12 therapists in the country trained in Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) which utilizes a one-of-a-kind process to help heal deep attachment wounds and trauma using a variety of PBSP-specific techniques. Alessia has a passion for working to help people feel seen and understood, confront their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, and be motivated for change and overall growth. She loves providing a safe space for all of this to be possible.
Gabriella Puleo-Monzon, PhD
Gaby is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern with a doctorate in Experimental Psychology. She has years of interdisciplinary clinical experience as a therapist and has special training in tobacco cessation treatment, cancer survivorship, divorce support, and health behavior change, and is able to provide therapeutic support for clients with a wide spectrum of presenting problems including divorce recovery, post-separation abuse, coparenting/ parallel parenting, and pregnancy/ postpartum/ pregnancy loss. Gaby takes a whole-health approach to therapy, through which clients are encouraged to examine the root cause of their emotions and behaviors and are guided towards sustainable progress and success both in therapy and in daily life.
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
PhD in Experimental Psychology
Uplift Administrator
Gabriela Tramonte
Gaby is a Master’s student at the University of Central Florida, pursuing the Clinical Mental Health Counseling track. She serves as the main administrator at Uplift, where she manages appointment scheduling, phone communications, and various administrative tasks. Gaby is passionate about advancing her education through a Ph.D. in counseling, with research interests focused on intersectionality, the mental health impacts on minoritized youth, and therapeutic approaches for Latinx and LGBTQ+ populations. Gaby has an interest in DV, women’s issues, and working with teens.
Types of Therapeutic Approaches
Individuals, Couples, Family, Group
Emotional focused based therapy, PBSP (pesso boyden system psychomotor therapy), trauma informed therapy, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness based, interpersonal, psychodynamic, and a variety of multiple integrative approaches used for whatever best fits the needs of the personal client.
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As a therapist and director, Alessia believes that it is important for each individual to have the space to feel safe and comfortable to explore all aspects of themselves in order to lead to all they are meant to become. The overall goal is to help lead individuals to their soul, which in turn helps understand and acknowledge patterns, thoughts, and behaviors that are hindering growth and causing symptoms of distress, mentally and physically.
Psychological and neurological research shows that past experiences create body memory and thought processes encoded in our brain, which become the neural pathways for triggering and experiencing the world we live in. Many of these patterns that are triggered are for survival strategies that carry emotional charge that hinder us from living fully present and receptive to healthier patterns of overall connection. These neural pathways and body memories and experiences, when not processed or dealt with, can manifest present day as depression, anxiety, as well as a variety of physical symptoms. Using techniques in emotional based therapeutic tools (Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor-PBSP) and mind/body microtracking, this allows the client to experience and explore interior/exterior perspectives and reshape them in the present day. This helps clients with emotional regulation, awareness, and recreating new neural pathways for symbolic corrections and experiences at the core of psychological distress. This helps minimize and diminish psychological (mental and physical) distress in a healthier way. Creating this safe place through the relationship with Alessia, clients are able to explore and gain tools and experiences to live their life more authentically and healthily.
Live the life you want.
“Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?”