LMFT, 13 years of experience
Hello my name is Sandra Nunez, and I provide intuitive psychotherapy services to individual, children, couples, and families in need of counseling. People search for therapy for various reasons. Most often these reasons include feelings of sadness, experiencing difficulties adjusting to life changes, difficulties dealing with chronic physical pain, emotional pain, trauma, depression, anger, and anxieties. Perhaps you are trying to heal from a difficult relationship breakup, leaving you feeling sad and defeated. It could be that you are a part of a newly formed blended family, living together for the first time, and instead of joy you are experiencing chaos. You may be seeking help, because your spouse has received orders for yet another deployment with the military. Having to say goodbye once again, leaves you feeling frustrated, anxious and sad. Often people come to therapy due to grief and loss. People dealing with difficult life changes, may experience a range of negative emotions, from sadness, anxiety to anger. These feelings often manifest as stress, which may cause further strain in personal relationships or affect one’s quality of life. Guiding Hope Individual and Family Therapy in San Diego, California is a private online practice owned by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Doctorate in Behavioral Health, serving clients in the State of California and Colorado.
I will work with you on building rapport, provide you with an overview of how we are going to work on your goals. I will spend the first session in getting to you and your background.
I utilize a holistic approach to providing therapy to my clients. I consider each person’s mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health to facilitate optimal functioning within the individual and family unit. During our sessions, I will focus on learning about your unique upbringing to understand how it shaped you into the person you are today. We might start our session by creating a genogram to process your intergenerational trauma and determine a solution to heal from it. In my practice I specialize in working with children and adults who experience various types of trauma, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, domestic violence dynamics, victims of sexual abuse, codependency issues, emotional overeating, parenting, health, divorce, military issues.
I enjoy working with ages 8 and up focusing on trauma, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, relationship issues, family conflict, military families, cultural issues, grief and loss, divorce, etc.
I have been trained extensively in CBT and use it frequently in my therapy practice. I teach and help clients utilize CBT skills to reduce anxiety, depression and phobias.
As a woman of color with a diverse background e.g. biracial and bicultural I personally understand how difficult it can be living in a dominant hetero normative Caucasian culture. We will take your cultural background into consideration in every aspect of your care.
I have used DBT to aid clients with emotion regulation skills that are not reduced by using CBT alone.
If you desire to incorporate your Christian faith into your care, we can incorporate such into your treatment.
I have worked as a hospice counselor and have extended experience in working with grief and loss.