I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 34 years of professional experience providing psychotherapy services. I speak English and Spanish. I provide my clients with a unique approach, helping them to identify and achieve specific therapy goals in a confidential, empathetic, and trusting atmosphere. I help individuals understand their current circumstances in order to make changes that will have lasting positive effects. I use an Insight approach, where I help, a better understanding of themselves, which leads to “individualized solutions”. My treatment approach is short-term, problem-oriented therapy sustained by my psychoanalytic background i. I use a combination of cognitive-behavioral, psycho-educational, and humanistic modalities, as well as evidence-based techniques. I strive to create a balance within my therapeutic approach based on my client’s particular needs and preferences. I have had the honor to serve a diversity of individuals and their families in a variety of settings, such as community mental health, crisis helplines, and outpatient programs (in a hospital setting). This was the first step. This is a safe space where you can create a vision for your life, along with an action plan and strategies for how to achieve your goals once you have identified them. I will support you and encourage you to find your ambition and desire and ways to realize your possibilities.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session, we will begin with brief introductions and then focus on understanding the specific challenges you are currently facing. This initial conversation allows me to develop a thoughtful, individualized plan that will guide our work together in future sessions.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I specialize in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias, as well as relationship difficulties, life transitions, and behavioral challenges. I also bring extensive experience supporting clients through parenting concerns, midlife and empty-nest transitions, career and work-related stress, aging, loss, divorce, and cultural adjustments. I use evidence-based therapeutic approaches to help clearly identify the difficulties you may be facing and to support you in addressing them practically and effectively. My work is collaborative and tailored to each person, to create an individualized therapeutic experience that fits your unique needs, strengths, and life circumstances.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with clients facing relational and interpersonal challenges, including difficulties in romantic relationships, couple dynamics, and broader relational patterns. I also support individuals navigating career changes, vocational uncertainty, parenting challenges, and major life transitions such as midlife adjustments, empty-nest transitions, aging, loss, and divorce. I especially enjoy working with young professionals in the first few years of their careers. Many of my clients are motivated to improve their lives but feel they do not yet have the tools or clarity needed to move forward. They often experience feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or anxious—particularly around career decisions and life transitions. My clients include adults, young adults, and seniors.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
This type of therapy is focused on helping the patient identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts , learn practical self -help strategies and change behaviors.
Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalytic technique, rooted in Sigmund Freud's theories, involves exploring unconscious thoughts and feelings to understand and address psychological issues.
Psychodynamic
The psychodynamic approach in psychology focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in shaping behavior, using techniques like dream analysis, free association, and analysis of defense mechanisms to explore these hidden mental processes