Hi, it is a pleasure to meet you. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Texas. I graduated from Texas A&M University Kingsville in 2020 and received my LMSW shortly after graduation in 2021. I have been in practice with a non-Profit organization for the past three years as both a mental health therapist and clinical case manager. My aim for my services is to identify what help clients may need and help guide them through the change process to the best of my ability.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
First sessions are introductions. Other than the addressing of intake paperwork, I want to know about you in multiple fields of your life. What makes you, you? What experiences shape you? What are your goals and how best I can be of service to help you attain them. The client is the primary resource in the therapeutic process as the client is the master of their own experience.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
If I were to list what my strengths as a provider, is my ability to remain impartial no matter the circumstance and utilizing unconditional positive regard to my clients. I allow my clients full space to discuss their concerns, stressors, and beliefs. Honesty is the best way to help break down the problems clients can face, and I seek to cultivate an environment where that can be possible. Motivational Interviewing is my bread and butter in helping me achieve this as it guides me to meet my clients where they are at and at what level of change they are
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Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Training and practice for 2 years. I utilize DBT for individuals to instill a sense of mindfulness, manage distress tolerance, take consideration to interpersonal relationships, and managing and improving emotional regulation. The aim of DBT is to accept self and a client’s experience to simultaneously work toward a meaningful change. We’ll address your personal goals, emotions, and behaviors as well as instilling and enhancing coping mechanisms to handle distress and encouraging self-acceptance.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have three years of experience with Cognitive Behavioral Theory. I utilize CBT to help my client identify negative thought patterns as well as their influence on our emotions and behaviors. Usually this is accomplished by adopting a present focused thought process where our current challenges and issues are the primary focus. Though at some point, we may need to look back further to help better understand how these negative thought patterns came to be. Clients are taught how to cognitively restructure their distorted thinking by first identifying the negative thought patters, adopting engaging activities to help with combating inactivity and avoidance that comes with depression, exposure to root causes of negative thought as a way to desensitize and build neutral responses to negative stimuli.
Motivational Interviewing
I have three years experience. I utilize motivational interviewing as a means to address where a client is at in the change process. My aim as a counselor is not to tell you what to do, but to help mirror the state of the client and assist them along the process of change. This included listening with empathy and unconditional positive regard.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
1 year experience and still training. I utilize IFS as a supportive technique. Through IFS we follow the belief that we as individuals are a set of subsystems with our “self” as the leader of the internal system. These subsystems or “parts” of ourselves consist of managers (ex. perfectionism, criticism, hyper-vigilance), firefighters (Behaviors such as substance use, overeating, or avoidance of problems), and exiles (Vulnerable parts of ourselves such as pain, shame, or trauma. Hidden away because the feel overwhelming or unacceptable). Technique usually involves developing a sense of self-leadership, un blending and understanding parts that have taken over, healing exiles, and reorganizing the system in which the parts exist in.