Online Therapist for Wesley Chapel, FL residents

Kaylee Mills Brenneman, Ed.S, MEd, LMHC, our therapy lead, is based at the Lakeland office and joins Wesley Chapel cases by Florida telehealth. Kaylee is comprehensively trained in DBT and trained in EMDR, which are specific trainings rather than descriptions of style.

Skyler Anderson, RMHCI, a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern working under clinical supervision, as Florida requires for registered interns, sees Wesley Chapel clients by Florida telehealth. Skyler’s focus is talk therapy and grief, from a recent loss to the kind that has gone quiet but never settled.

We will tell you plainly which of them you would be seeing and why, when we call you back, before a chart is opened. See the full clinical team.

• Individual therapy for anxiety, depression, ADHD coaching, trauma and PTSD, grief, life transitions, and OCD.
• Couples therapy for communication patterns, conflict, infidelity recovery, premarital counseling, and rebuilding intimacy.
• Women’s mental health and perinatal support.
• Psychological testing, done in person at our Lakeland office or by telehealth, for learning, attention and development questions.

The working methods here are CBT for cognitive and behavioral patterns, DBT for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, EMDR for reprocessing traumatic memory, IFS for parts work, and ERP for obsessive-compulsive presentations. Which method you get is chosen after intake based on the presentation, and it can change once we see how you respond. A therapist who never revises the plan is not being consistent; they are not paying attention.

Week one, intake. Its length is confirmed when you book. What brought you in, the history that bears on it, what you have already tried, and what a better version of your week would actually look like. There is no requirement to go through old trauma in detail on day one, and a clinician who pushes you to is doing it for their notes, not for you.

Week two, the working plan. You leave with a stated focus and a method attached to it, not a vague agreement to keep talking. If a medication question surfaced in week one, this is usually when it gets raised with the psychiatric side of the practice.

Weeks three and four, cadence. Individual sessions are 50 minutes, couples and family 60. Most people start weekly. Weekly is not a permanent sentence; we step down as things stabilize, and we say so rather than letting the appointment become a subscription.

Mixing in Florida telehealth is available and common, and in-person sessions at our Lakeland office are there whenever you would rather sit in the room. It is all part of our talk therapy in Florida.

Every Ascend clinician, from therapy in Lakeland to psychiatry here in Wesley Chapel and primary care in Tampa, works from one shared record. That sounds like an operations detail until it is your care. In practice it removes the three failure points that lose people between appointments. For a side-by-side view of where therapy fits among those services, see outpatient mental health care in Wesley Chapel.

The story you tell four times. One record covers the therapy notes, the prescribing notes, and the primary care notes with Dr. Jason Saylor, DO. Nobody asks you to summarize your worst year again for a new intake form.

The referral that never happens. Where sessions alone have stopped shifting things and a prescribing opinion is worth having, that request goes to Anna Stouffer, PMHNP-BC or Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC inside one record. You are not handed a phone number and a wish. Psychiatric care is scheduled from inside the practice.

The symptom nobody owns. Sleep that will not fix itself, unexplained fatigue, a thyroid question sitting under a mood presentation. In a therapy-only practice those become a referral you may or may not follow through on. Here they become a message inside the same practice.

The tradeoff is honest: a practice running this many service lines is busier than a single-therapist office. Most clients decide the coordination is worth it.

Which plans apply depends on the clinician you see, and the practice does not decide your benefit; your policy does. Insurance questions go to our care team, who confirm your coverage with you before your first visit.

Session Rates

You get the number when our team calls you back, before you are on the calendar. Call (863) 510-2624 if you want it sooner than that.

HSA and FSA cards are accepted, as are CareCredit and Affirm financing. Supervised intern sessions are offered at a reduced fee. The current plan-by-clinician breakdown lives on the insurance page.

Ascend Mind and Body - Wesley Chapel
27724 Cashford Circle, Suite 102
Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
Psychiatry, ADHD care and ketamine therapy only. Therapy scheduling, by video or at the Lakeland office: (863) 510-2624

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

In-person therapy is at our Lakeland office, 832 Florida Ave S Ste 1, Second Floor, Lakeland, FL 33801. Most Wesley Chapel clients meet their therapist by secure video. Clients come from Seven Oaks, Meadow Pointe, Saddlebrook, New Tampa, Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, and Zephyrhills.

If you also see Anna Stouffer, PMHNP-BC or Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC for psychiatry, those visits are the ones held at Cashford Circle; your therapy stays on video or in Lakeland.