About Guin Counseling Services
Welcome to Guin Counseling Services, a dedicated mental health and immigration evaluation practice founded with the goal of providing compassionate, evidence-based care. Our services are tailored to adolescents and adults across Florida, offering a safe environment to explore personal challenges and fostering growth through every stage of life. Whether you are seeking support for trauma, depression, or complex immigration evaluations, our practice is grounded in a client-centered philosophy that prioritizes your unique journey.
We believe that healing is a collaborative process. By building a strong therapeutic alliance founded on empathy and respect, we empower our clients to uncover their inherent strengths and build lasting resilience. Our approach integrates professional expertise with a deep understanding of individual narratives, ensuring that every person who walks through our doors—or connects with us via telehealth—feels heard, valued, and inspired to achieve positive change.
Our Mission
At Guin Counseling Services, our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing, and compassionate space where individuals can explore their inner landscapes and embark on a transformative journey toward healing. We believe in the power of therapeutic connection to foster resilience, uncover inherent strengths, and inspire positive change. Our commitment is to walk alongside you, offering professional guidance and empathetic support as you navigate life's challenges, specializing in trauma, depression, anxiety, and immigration evaluations for the Florida community.
Diana Ramos-Elvir
Founder & Lead Therapist
Hi, I’m Diana. I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and the founder of Guin Counseling Services, LLC. I believe therapy works best when you feel comfortable bringing your whole self into the room—your experiences, identity, culture, questions, and hopes.
As a first-generation immigrant, queer Latina, and bilingual English/Spanish therapist, I know how much it matters to feel understood without having to explain or defend every part of who you are. My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that there is always more to your story than what appears on paper.
Culture & Identity Matter Here
I’m a first-generation immigrant, queer Latina, and bilingual English/Spanish therapist. My own experiences have shaped the way I understand identity, belonging, family, culture, and what it can be like to navigate different worlds at the same time.
Culture isn't something we simply leave at the door when we walk into therapy. Family expectations, immigration experiences, language, sexuality, gender, generational differences, faith, and community can all influence how we see ourselves, relate to others, and ask for help.
Because of this, I approach therapy with curiosity rather than assumptions. You shouldn't have to spend your sessions translating your culture, explaining why something matters, or defending parts of your identity just to feel understood.
What Therapy With Me Is Like
My style is warm, collaborative, and straightforward. Therapy with me is a space where you can laugh, cry, be frustrated, ask difficult questions, sit in silence, celebrate progress, or simply show up and say, “I have no idea where to start.” We can start there.
My approach is trauma-informed and person-centered, incorporating practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and DBT-informed skills. But I don't believe therapy should feel like a formula. The approach should fit the person—not the other way around.
I especially enjoy working with adolescents and adults navigating trauma and PTSD, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, major life transitions, identity concerns, and substance use or recovery. I also have extensive experience supporting veterans, LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrant families, and people whose stories don't always fit neatly into one box.
Why I Do This Work
I became a therapist because I believe people deserve spaces where they can feel understood without being reduced to the hardest thing that has happened to them.
Healing doesn't always mean forgetting, “getting over it,” or becoming an entirely different person. Sometimes it's understanding why certain patterns developed, recognizing when something that once protected you no longer serves you, learning to trust yourself again, or simply having a place where you don't have to pretend you're okay.
My role isn't to tell you who you should become. It's to help you better understand yourself, develop tools that make sense for your life, and create space to decide what comes next.
You are allowed to take up space in your own story.