Practitioner record · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Eli Manata Sloan has been in practice 4 years and is licensed in Florida. Eli lists stress, Anxiety, addictions and LGBT among 48 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.
Everything below is either quoted from Eli's own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.
01 · Who Eli works with
Eli lists 5 specialisms and 43 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Eli chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.
02 · In Eli's own words
Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.
Are you navigating heartbreak, anxiety, or questions about who you are and where you belong?
You don’t have to cross this threshold alone.
I’m Eli Manata, a multilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) offering trauma-informed, heart-centered, LGBTQIA+-affirming care to individuals and couples. My work integrates expressive arts, IFS-informed parts work, and sexual health.
You are welcome to bring your whole Self into our work-whether you’re navigating relational rupture and repair, religious trauma and spirituality, substance use, sexuality and intimacy, or the layered experiences of identity and gender.
With couples, I use a Gottman-informed lens (Levels 1 and 2 trained) to strengthen bids for connection, repair disconnection, plan a separation, or navigate uncoupling with care. I receive sex-therapy supervision from an AASECT-certified supervisor through a multicultural, social-justice, and sex-positive lens that affirms diverse sexualities and relationship structures.
I’m a PhD student in Expressive Therapies and offer virtual sessions throughout Florida in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. On-screen pets are always welcome.
This is YOUR life. I honor that and welcome the whole of you. If you’re ready to begin, book a time that works for you, and lets journey together the Supernova Gateway into whatever comes next.
Eli Manata Sloan, on the BetterHelp listing · read 9 Oct 2026
03 · What happens next
Eli practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Eli's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.
BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Eli at this point.
BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Eli is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Eli.
You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.
A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.
Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.
04 · Before you commit
Built from what Eli actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Eli's - Eli has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.
“How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”
Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.
“How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”
On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.
“You offer sessions in English, Spanish and French. Does the work change depending on which we use?”
People often reach different material in a first language than in a second. Worth naming before you choose.
05 · Practical details
06 · Provenance
Eli's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 9 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.
The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.
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