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Day One Counseling, LLC - Laura Goncalves

Day One Counseling, LLC - Laura Goncalves

LCSW
6 years of experience
Virtual

Hi! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania. I received my Masters from Marywood University and have been practicing for 6 years. I help teens adults and middle age adults struggling with anxiety, depression, or self-esteem issues become the best versions of themselves. Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers and their lives. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself can lead to long-term issues for your mind and body. I believe it shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life.

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

In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions. I like to spend time building a strong therapeutic rapport. We will 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.

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

My approach is Person-Centered. Person-Centered involves focusing care on the needs of the patient and ensuring that your preferences and values guide clinical decisions. This allows me to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to you. I tailor treatment for each of my clients starting with understanding where you are now and the challenges you are facing. I assist you putting a plan in place to help you move forward while offering an inclusive, safe space virtual appointments to suit your schedule.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

I love working with teens, young adults, and middle age adults. My clients are eager to improve, but don't yet have the tools needed to make this goal a reality. They often feel stuck, overwhelmed and anxious about their life and decisions related to it.

About Day One Counseling, LLC - Laura Goncalves

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My treatment methods

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I will help my patient by first becoming aware of the different cognitive distortions they are using, followed by challenging and replacing those unhelpful thoughts and believes then replacing with healthier ones instead.

Solution Focused Brief Treatment

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.

Person-centered (Rogerian)

Person-Centered involves focusing care on the needs of the patient and ensuring that your preferences and values guide clinical decisions. My approach is providing care that is respectful of and responsive to you.