Kim Ovalle
As a Certified Grief Educator, I am dedicated to supporting individuals through loss, transition, and life's most challenging moments. My passion lies in working with older adults, honoring their life stories while providing a safe a supportive space for healing, reflection, and growth. I believe therapy is a collaborative journey. Walking alongside my clients, I strive to meet them with empathy, respect, and presence-helping them navigate grief at their own pace while rediscovering meaning, resilience, and hope. For me, being being a therapist is a way to give back: to bear witness, to listen deeply, and to support healing in its many forms.
My passion lies in working with older adults, honoring their life stories while providing a safe a supportive space for healing, reflection, and growth.
It is a privilege to accompany others through their healing journey, offering guidance, compassion, and understanding every step of the way.
First session
In our first session, we will get to know each other. I want to provide my client with an opportunity to express their feelings and why they are seeking therapy. By getting to know each other, I want to ensure that I will be a good match to provide my client the skill set they need to gain inner-peace, and mental stability.
Strengths
Having experience working with clients in multiple settings, I am empathic and understanding with the difficulties that my clients experiences during different stages of life. I believe in helping my client regaining the strength, resources, and coping skills that they already have.
Ideal clients
I love working adult and older adults transitioning into different stages of their life. Through the transitioning my clients can lack the skill set to transition into these new rolls. As a result, my clients feels overwhelmed, alone, or "drowning". I use mindfulness to work with my client to increase their feelings of peace and enhance the inner strength.
Treatment methods
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
The method that I use most in therapy is mindfulness and meditation. With this method, it allows for us to pause, breathe, and gain clarity. During the most stressed and challenging days or situations, our habitual pattern is to over-think leaving us with a fight or flight feeling. This way of reaction can be due to chronic trauma or adversity experienced. With mindfulness and meditation, I can guide clients to be more self aware through pausing before responding and to gain mental clarity. Through this, my goal is to help my client to increase connection with one-self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
With the constant change in our society today, there can be a lot of stress and demands. These can be attainable or due to the "social expectation" the demands is unrealistic therefore causing increased stress leading to negative thoughts and problematic behaviors. Through therapy, I can help to strengthen one's relationship with one's self to open up for self-acceptance and healthy relationship building. I have helped my clients to question their thought, if it is healthy or is their thought process is something that is causing them increase distress. As a result, this has helped my client to address different struggles due to their thought process to improve self-esteem and relationships. This then decrease the amount of stress, anxiety, and anger that one experiences.
Grief Therapy
Being certified as a Grief Educator, I walk with my clients through the journey of adjusting a adapting to life changes through loss. Grief takes time to heal with support and consultation. It can feel lonely without having that one to one connection with others. Through our sessions, I would like to be that person that walks down the path of the painful loss toward healing and self-empowerment. I believe one does does not move from such a large loss in life, but rather one grows and adapt to the pain. Together I believe that healing will come to assist coping with the pain.
Location
Virtual sessions