I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a licensed psychologist in my country of origin, with over 16 years of experience in the mental health field, dedicated to helping children, adolescents, adults, and families navigate life's challenges with greater clarity, resilience, and self-understanding. I specialize in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, life transitions, stress, self-esteem issues, and emotional difficulties. I have worked as a bilingual clinician with a multicultural population of individuals from diverse backgrounds across a variety of agencies and programs.
My approach is humanistic, grounded in psychodynamic therapy, which explores how life experiences, relationships, and motivations influence present-day thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Through this insight-oriented process, patients gain a deeper understanding of themselves, identify recurring patterns, and develop healthier ways to cope and relate to themselves and others.
My objective is to help patients strengthen self-awareness, improve emotional well-being, foster healthier relationships, and build a more fulfilling life.
I strive to create a supportive, active-listening, collaborative, and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where patients feel safe exploring their experiences. I tailor treatment to each individual's unique needs and goals.
Additional areas of focus: Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Young adult issues
FL LMHC MH27756