Your unique challenges, background, strengths, and life experiences will guide me as we collaborate on treatment goals and explore how to reach them. My first task is to practice active listening and nonjudgmental curiosity as we get to know one another. I believe that the relationship between client and therapist is what can provide the space for healing, growth, and improved mental health. Therapists are human, too, and we are constantly learning as we go. This is why I see clients as creative partners, not patients. We are in this unique process together.
I work from a culturally sensitive, eclectic, integrative, psychodynamic style of intervention. Together we can prioritize your individual needs to boost your mood, decrease worry, calm your anxiety, be authentic and present, reduce stress, and feel empowered. I work from a strengths-based perspective and with compassion, empathy and listening I specialize in disorders such as Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Major Depressive Disorder, PTSD, Addictions, Trauma, Life Transitions, Depression, and Anxiety. I work using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalytic, other Postmodern theoretical bases from a Humanistic perspective. I incorporate biofeedback, guided imagery, narrative therapy, mindfulness-based holistic interventions, and psychodynamic treatment strategies.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Depression, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Attachment issues, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Dissociation, Forgiveness, Gender Dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Immigration Issues, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders , Multicultural Concerns, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and Discrimination, Self-love, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gottman Method, Imago Relationship Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy
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