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Emilia Ward, LCSW - Therapist at Grow Therapy

Emilia Ward

Emilia Ward

LCSW
20 years of experience
Virtual

I am a Clinically Licensed Professional Therapist from New York City practicing my skills for the past 20 years. I received my Masters Degree in Social Work at Fordham University. I have conducted therapy in English/Spanish. I've worked in Mental Health Clinics, Hospitals, Detox Substance Abuse Centers, and recently with Telehealth remote online agencies. I have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. I have conducted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Interactive Play Therapy and Spirituality Modalities. My approach is to listen to your inner most thoughts and emotions by providing a safe and warm environment. We will then identify techniques that will work for you to feel less stress in your life. You are the creator of your story and know your strengths and obstacles that challenge you. Taking this first step, will help you become more relaxed and empowered to enjoy a more fulfilling life. I am here to support you in this very exciting next chapter in your life journey.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In our first session together, we will give a brief introduction of ourselves. We will immediately explore what you are seeking to learn more about, regarding your specific obstacles and challenges. This will help me build a set of techniques for your following sessions, providing constructive feedback along the way.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

My personable and friendly guidance as a partner shows itself with cautiously identifying what the client brings to the session that is affecting them. I actively listen to what the client is saying, and allow for the underlying reasons that brought them to therapy emerge. I help them navigate through their confusing or difficult emotions that caused them to feel overwhelmed, and not heard. We will explore what works and what does not work, to make those sustainable and lasting meaningful inroads. This will bring out a happier and healthier you with increased confidence, acknowledging your existing strengths. I guide my clients to make a new narrative story, creating their fun and loving new chapter in their precious life journey.

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My treatment methods

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I have been using CBT for many years in my practice. I have seen many clients use these techniques identifying how their mind functions with recurring thoughts, emotions and behavior work. I have noted significant decreases with their anxiety levels. When you are confronted with anxiety producing triggers, you can learn how to change your anxious thought process. These triggering thoughts affect your feelings, and your entire day is affected. Ultimately, as you identify triggers, your behavior changes. You will learn to spot these negative thoughts when they surface. There are many techniques and just to name a few, that we will touch on, is thought-stopping, reframing-changing the thought and other such techniques. We will use these cognitions to improve your knowledge of faulty thoughts and stories you have created in your mind. You will have a clearer understanding of these dynamics through practice to enjoy a less anxious and stressful lifestyle. Worksheets will be provided to help you during our time in between sessions.

Dialectical Behavior (DBT)

Clients have told me that Dialectical Behavior Therapy has helped them in their immediate troubling moments with obstacles that challenge and create stressful flight or fight episodes. These feelings of overwhelming hopelessness or other stressful thoughts cause distress tolerance. We can build on managing an emotional thought without feeling so overwhelmed. These skills can help you to radically accept the thought with pleasant self-soothing activities, visualization, imagery, changing the story to regulate calm feelings. I believe you can build on those parts with my guidance to look deep inside, and see when your emotional mind gets in the way of your logical wise mind. I will send you a worksheet that help with this understanding. These techniques will help you to radically accept the moment that will make life worth living.