Joaquin Gil
I partner with youth, adults, couples, and families to help navigate life's adversities. I prioritize your lived experiences as we work together to facilitate meaningful change with compassion and cultural empowerment. My personal-family hardships and resiliencies in my life create the foundation for me to genuinely establish relationships with others. Our partnership will be built upon mutual trust and collaboration.
First session
We collaborate treatment goals and review limitations to confidentiality nonjudgmentally.
Strengths
I embrace cultural identity, value lived experiences and celebrate empowerment.
Ideal clients
We explore communication ruptures, grief/trauma, relationship fractures and attachment dynamics.
Treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Explore thoughts, emotions and memories to help defuse unhelpful perceptions and embrace core morals and values.
Trauma-Informed Care
Understand symptoms as trauma response system and builds a sense of safety and empowerment towards personal strengths and resiliencies.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Develop an acceptance/awareness to the dialectic between two contradictory items that could simultaneously be true at that same time.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Helps to recognize and understand perceptual awareness and behaviors that may create emotional distress and contribute to unhelpful thinking patterns.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Strengthens emotional bonding and healthy attachments to create new patterns of connectivity to enhance relationship dynamics.
Location
Virtual sessions