Acceptance and commitment (ACT)

With acceptance and commitment therapy, clients learn with mindful methods to accept their inner emotions, negative thoughts and symptoms caused by hardships, and commit to healthy and constructive activities to uphold their values and goals, making the required changes in their behavior to move forward in their lives.

Compassion Focused

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a therapeutic approach that aims to help those who struggle with shame and self-criticism, often resulting from early experiences of abuse or neglect.

Culturally Sensitive Therapy

Culturally sensitive therapy is a type of psychotherapy that respects and accommodates the client’s cultural background and identity. As bicultural and bilingual therapist myself, understanding my client’s race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or any other cultural element that influences their beliefs, values, and attitudes is for me key to help my clients feel understood, accepted, and comfortable.

Mind-body approach

As needed, I work with my clients somatically paying attention to their body language and body signals. A mind-body approach is a holistic way of healing that acknowledges the interconnectedness of our mental, emotional, and physical aspects. It focuses on understanding and nurturing the relationship between the mind and body to promote relaxation, self-awareness, and mindfulness. In this case, I specialized in Somatics when coursing my Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and my clients often opt to work somatically in order to help integration of the content that emerges in sessions. Outside work to practice certain body-mind techniques apply as well to enhance the therapeutic work.

Transpersonal

I also bring a Transpersonal, Spiritual and Jungian (psychodynamic orientation) approach to therapy to pay attention to the unconscious and the soul through dreams and synchronicities.