LMFT, 8 years of experience
Angelica has a passion for helping young children and adolescents, as well as couples and families. She works with clients who suffer from depression, anxiety, addiction, adjustment, grief, family conflicts and sever medical diagnosis. Angelica has specialized experience working with those who have suffered extreme trauma or have unresolved feelings about past experiences. Angelica also specializes in support for children and adolescents with serious behavioral difficulties (including: cutting or other self-harming behaviors, anger outbursts, defiance, dis-respectfulness, etc) Angelica believes that understanding, respect, and honesty are at the heart of the therapeutic relationship. She works with clients to explore past experiences and practice real life challenges, providing clients with the tools to better manage themselves towards their goals.
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions. I also inform the clients there is a lot of diagnostics question to gather information to better sever to client. I also shared the limits of confidentiality.
Empathy: Being able to see different perspectives and find solutions that are beneficial for everyone Time management: Being able to prioritize projects and manage your time Problem-solving: Being able to solve problems and develop innovative solutions Attention to detail: Being able to manage multiple projects at once and highlight the most important requirements of each project Critical thinking: Being able to break down complex problems into manageable parts and develop innovative solutions
Angelica has a passion for helping individuals, couples and families. She works with clients who suffer from depression, anxiety, addiction, adjustment, grief, family conflicts and sever medical diagnosis.
CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
Mindfulness principles are applied to aid individuals in recognizing deterioration of mood without immediately judging or reacting .
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy technique that helps people process traumatic memories and heal from distressing life experiences. It involves moving your eyes in a specific way while focusing on a memory, which can help reduce the vividness and emotion associated with the memory.