Florida Telehealth

Online therapy in Florida

Mountain Family Therapy provides online therapy to clients living in Florida through Florida's out-of-state telehealth registry. Each of our clinicians holds an active Florida registration in addition to their home-state license, which lets us deliver continuous, long-term care to Florida residents — from Pensacola to Key West, from Jacksonville to Naples — without the handoff problems that often come up when people try to find a therapist.

We work with individuals, couples, and families. Our clinicians are trained in evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, DBT, EFT, and motivational interviewing, and our practice has clinical focus in areas we genuinely specialize in: relationships, anxiety, depression, parenting, life transitions, grief, addiction and recovery, and family work across the lifespan. If you're looking for a therapist in Florida who can see you reliably over time, this page explains how we work here and who we are.

How our clinicians practice in Florida

Florida is one of a small number of states that allows licensed out-of-state mental health providers to practice telehealth with Florida residents by registering with the state, under a system administered by the Florida Department of Health. This is not the same as PSYPACT, which is a separate interstate compact for psychologists. Because our clinicians are LCSWs and LMFTs — not psychologists — we use Florida's telehealth provider registry directly, and each clinician holds an individual Florida registration number (listed below) in addition to their primary home-state license.

Practically, this means a few things for clients. Our Florida registrations are verifiable through the Florida Department of Health's public license lookup. We are bound by Florida professional standards and reporting obligations for the time we're working with Florida clients. And because the clinician you start with is genuinely licensed to see you in Florida — not operating through a loophole or re-routing through a third party — there's no artificial cap on session frequency or duration of care. You can work with the same therapist for six months or six years, without having to switch providers because of a licensing technicality.

For clients who travel between Florida and another state where we're licensed — Idaho, Illinois, Montana, Texas, or Utah — care continues without interruption. The clinician is licensed in both places. This continuity matters more than it sounds. One of the most common reasons therapy doesn't produce lasting change is that people switch providers every time they move, change insurance, or change jobs. Our structure is designed to reduce that churn.

Our Florida-licensed clinicians

Each clinician below is individually registered with the Florida Department of Health to practice telehealth with Florida residents. Short introductions appear here; full bios, including training, clinical philosophy, and personal background, live on the individual therapist pages.

Cade Dopp, LCSW

Florida registration TPSW5567 · Home-state license: Utah LCSW 13014773-3501 · Also licensed in Idaho and Texas

Practical and holistic. Cade specializes in anxiety, relationship issues, depression, identity questions, parenting, and life transitions. He integrates evidence-based approaches like CBT and ACT with attention to the whole person — sleep, nutrition, movement, and emotional health working together rather than in isolation. Read full bio

Leanna Dopp, LCSW

Florida registration TPSW5595 · Home-state license: Utah LCSW 13402906-3501 · Also licensed in Idaho, Illinois, and Texas

Kind and thoughtful. Leanna works with teens, adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and the sense of being stuck. Her approach draws on mindfulness, ACT, EFT, CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing, tailored to the person in the room. Read full bio

Shawn Weymouth, LMFT

Florida registration TPMF1963 · Home-state license: Montana BBH-LMFT-LIC-35207

Inspiring and spiritual. Shawn is a Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience spanning individual, family, and group work — including substance use and addiction treatment, therapeutic schools, young adult transitions, and equine-assisted and wilderness therapy settings. He works with families in conflict, transitions, grief, and recovery. Read full bio

What we offer Florida clients

Individual therapyfor adults working on anxiety, depression, identity, life transitions, grief, trauma, or recovery.
Couples therapyfor relationship repair, communication, infidelity recovery, and premarital work.
Family therapyfor parent-child conflict, co-parenting, reunification, and family systems across the lifespan.
Therapy intensivesfor couples and individuals who want to do focused work in a condensed format.

Insurance and fees in Florida

We accept several major insurance carriers depending on the clinician and the client's plan. For clients whose insurance we don't accept directly, we provide superbills that can be submitted for out-of-network reimbursement — something most Florida PPO plans offer for licensed mental health providers. We also see clients on a cash-pay basis. The simplest way to know what applies to you is to ask during a free consultation call; we'll verify benefits before your first session.

Florida mental health resources

If you're looking for additional support beyond outpatient therapy, or if you're in a crisis that needs immediate help, the following Florida-specific resources exist alongside our practice and are worth knowing about:

If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency department. Therapy is most useful as part of a longer arc of care; crisis situations need crisis resources first.

A few notes on therapy in Florida specifically

A few things come up more often with our Florida clients than with clients in other states we serve. Coastal communities deal with a real, recurring stressor in hurricane season, and the cumulative effect of evacuation, property loss, and recovery cycles shows up in therapy as a specific kind of chronic background stress that can be hard to name without someone helping to name it. Retirement and late-career transitions are another frequent theme, particularly in central and southwest Florida. And the mix of year-round residents and seasonal populations produces its own patterns of family connection and distance — adult children managing aging parents long-distance, partners adjusting to retirement together, grandparents figuring out what involvement looks like when the grandkids live six months away. None of this is unique to Florida, but the way it shows up here has a specific shape.

When you're ready to start

If you're looking for therapy in Florida and want to see whether one of our clinicians is a good fit, request a free 15-minute consultation. You can also read more about the specific services we offer in Florida: individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, or therapy intensives. If you're exploring a specific clinical area, our condition-focused pages — including attachment therapy, therapy for burnout, and postpartum depression therapy — go into more depth.