I'm a License Clinical Counselor with more than 13 years of experience listening and helping adult, young adults, and adolescent clients who seek relief from stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, interpersonal problems, trauma, grief, anger, and spiritual concerns. Clients have found that I'm sensitive, discerning, and have helped them see things through the kaleidoscope of diversity, such as race, class, ethnicity, immigration experience, rising from poverty through education and professional development.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, you will feel heard, understood, and validated. We will begin to identify what has worked for you and what hasn't, and begin to formulate an idea of what may explain why you are going through what you are going through and collaboratively identify approaches that have worked for others but will be unique for you.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I possess the capacity for deep listening, I'm discerning, have the ability to "see" things through your experience, I won't judge you but instead seek to understand your thoughts, emotions/feelings, actions, and the meaning you give to your experience.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I have helped people trying to figure out why others respond the way they do towards them, work through insecurities or self-esteem issues, how their upbringing impacted they way they relate to themselves and others, how to take care of the "now" and feel good, not worry so much about the future, and make peace with their past.
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Attachment-based
I use an attachment perspective as a foundational approach to support your process towards gaining a deeper sense of trust with yourself and your world.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I have been using mindfulness approaches for over 20 years. I use the awareness (thoughts, emotions and body) of the present moment as a means to help you have greater access to your personal internal-external experience, gain clarity, and make choices from a place of inner wisdom.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Another approach I take to understand your mental health experience is by looking at the functional interconnectedness between thoughts, emotions (body), and actions. By mindfully analyzing this interaction we can determine how it impact your personal and social well-being.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
As an immigrant Latino male growing up in the US and Mexico, I have gained an intimate understanding of how a person of color may be impacted by their skin color, physical traits, language, culture, and family of origin. I use a culturally sensitive approach to see you as the unique individual that you are, in many ways different but also similar to others that live and/or are employed in a diverse or sometimes homogenous cultural context.