LMFT, 18 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
With 17 years of experience, I offer an empathic and collaborative approach in order to help build resilience and the ability to maintain a sense of well-being for my client's. I believe in the "whole person" approach, focusing on enhancing stability, insight, and personal growth in both life goals and in personal and professional relationships. My goal is to foster a safe, trusting, culturally sensitive, and respectful relationship towards my client's.
My intake process is first to give the respect and time that one needs in order to build trust and rapport. My goal is not to just fill out measures or forms but to see the person for who and what they are and need. I am respectful and sensitive towards different cultures and life experiences. My goal is to help my client's move out of feeling stuck and to gain efficacy and resiliency which can maintain a sense of purpose, stability, and safety in one's lives. Helping one build hope, protective factors, and insight in order to manage the different life stressors along the way. I am open to work with different genders, cultures, races, and age groups.
I believe my greatest strength is having a lot of experience and understanding how trauma effects and impacts one's sense of self, safety, and security in this world. I believe in the power of resiliency, not seeing client's solely as victims, but as survivors who can overcome and thrive with guidance and support.
I prefer working with women of different age groups, cultures, and races, yet I do not want to exclude the LGBTQIA2S community as well. I want to help support not only surviving different traumas but helping find one’s own strengths, abilities, insight and power in order to thrive and succeed. Prior to being a therapist I worked as a health educator primarily with women, adolescents, and teen girls. I helped my client’s in improving their mental health and wellness. Learning how to advocate and access resources, building appropriate coping skills and tools in order to gain personal growth and confidence.
I have certification as a TF-CBT trauma therapist. I have 17 years experience working with female client's that have experienced domestic violence trauma, intergenerational/complex trauma, and/or Sexual abuse, ages 3 years old to 75 yrs. old. I have led child-adult groups and provided individual and family TX using the TF-CBT model. My experience working in Trauma has helped me become a culturally sensitive, insightful, and more empathic therapist.
I have experience helping client's understand their ability to change by learning how to improve motivation, enhance their strengths, find hope, improve self-efficacy and resiliency.
I am certified in Functional Family Therapy, the interventions I use have helped families build hope, respect, family, individual resiliency, and protective factors. The tools I provide can help increase communication, understanding one's family dynamics and patterns in order to build family cohesiveness. *Please note I am not trained or experienced in Couples counseling.
1 rating with written reviews
March 28, 2025
She's very good at what she does