LMFT, 20 years of experience
New to Grow
I am bilingual, Spanish and English, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas and Florida, with 20 years experience, who enjoys working with couples and adult family members to rediscover their strengths and gifts and develop new ones to continue to reach their therapeutic goals and beyond. I utilize Solution Focused, Narrative Therapy, and Collaborative Therapy techniques. I believe clients have the power to change themselves however at times life gets in the way and families forget their strengths and gifts. I guide families to share what successes they have had, times when these successes have useful and when the successes have not been useful. At times families and couples outgrow their old way of communicating and interacting, I highlight this and work to develop new ways of helping families and couples communicate and interact. I help families and couples understand the importance of acknowledging their not liking issues when they arise however not dwell on this but identify the issue, identify solutions and work together to implement the solutions. I believe many times people stay stuck in the unhappiness of the issue which causes them to not use their energy to work at solutions. I try to provide a safe space for all to share their issues. My therapeutic goal is help and serve all in their journey to rediscover themselves, as individuals and part of the family system, and improve upon this.
Hoping that clients come to the therapy session with an openness to work on sharing what has been helpful, what has not been helpful, what they are each willing to do to get to their therapeutic goal after they identify their therapeutic goals. I expect clients to implement the therapy tools and offered, share their successes and build on these successes.
I am very versatile when it comes to listening and I join very well with clients therapeutically. My goals is for clients to feel they have a safe space to share and work toward therapeutic solutions.
Couples, families/adult family members, family of creation, same gender and heterosexual clients, and clients from different cultural backgrounds. My ideal clients are clients that want to work and implement therapy tools and skills. My ideal clients do not focus on how they have tried to resolve issues with tools and skills offered before but acknowledged they were given the tools and skills but did not use them consistently. My ideal clients work on coming to get the therapeutic guidance that they need and then end therapy sessions as the families and couples are the experts in their lives.
Working with clients to identify what has been helpful and how to build on this.
Working with clients to identify times they did have control over the issue and build on these successes.
I love working with couples as it is amazing to help the rediscover their strengths and gifts and build on this for continued success.