My name is Richard Alan Mendoza and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist. Though I specialize in treating couples and families, I also work with clients that present a wide array of personal issues that include but are not limited to depression, anxiety, chronic stress, substance-use, PTSD, and grief. As a therapist who has been on the other side as a client, I know how difficult it can be to open up to a stranger. My hope is to cultivate a safe therapeutic space so as to allow the client(s) to breathe and sit in the present moment with themselves and in time, assist with discovering insights as well as solutions to pertinent issues.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Clients can expect to be provided with informed consent, expectations for therapy, limits to confidentiality, and mandated reporting while commencing the process of rapport building/getting to know one another. Client can expect to be met with warmth, authenticity, presence, and curiosity.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Some of my greatest strengths as a provider include being empathic, process and solution oriented, eclectic in terms of therapeutic modalities, and genuine in my approach towards clients.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I have effectively worked with adults, children, adolescents, veterans, and couples that have experienced academic/social/personal/relational struggles. As an adult/married man/minority, I know how what it feels like to experience self-doubt, fear, anxiety, chronic stress, and trauma. My past/present experiences provide the opportunity to find common ground and connections with the aforementioned populations. All in all, I am seeking to work with a client(s) that are able to put in the effort to obtain therapeutic goals as well as effectively utilize therapy as a way to self-reflect, share pertinent thoughts/emotions, and attain inner-healing.
About Richard Alan Mendoza
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Christian Counseling
I have utilized prayer and biblical scripture to assist clients that are seeking to incorporate their faith into therapy. I have found that inviting the Holy Spirit into the therapeutic space has resulted in fundamental change in thoughts/behaviors/emotions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have incorporated cognitive behavioral therapy to assist clients that struggle with depressive symptoms due to its cognitive profiles (i.e. negative beliefs about self, others, future). CBT typically looks like incorporating socratic questioning to assist with subjunctive thinking/self-reflection/challenging negative core beliefs and thought-patterns.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution Focused treatment is utilized to empower client's to find solutions for personal issues through therapeutic guidance via scaling questions, exception questions, presupposing change questions, while building a therapeutic alliance.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Person-Centered therapy is utilized to empower client's to attain/re-attain self-actualization. In Layman's terms, I assist client's on how to rediscover a genuine connection to themselves and their experiences by presenting authenticity, genuineness, and empathy.
Couples Counseling
When working with couples, I utilize an eclectic approach by incorporating interventions/methodologies from the Gottman Institute, Emotionally Focused therapy, Humanistic-Experiential, Strategic Family Therapy, and Integrated Attachment Theory, to name a few. I utilize the aforementioned interventions/methodologies to assist couple's with expanding emotional experiences and integrate interventions in a practical way to increase positive interactions, reduce maladaptive behavioral patterns, and promote cohesion/unity.