Richard Alan Mendoza
Richard Alan Mendoza
My name is Richard Alan Mendoza and I am an LMFT. I 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.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
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.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
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.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I have effectively worked with adults, children, adolescents, veterans, and couples that have experienced academic/social/personal/relational struggles. 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 struggling 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 clients 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 clients 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.