Dr. Ivy Burgo is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, registered Health Service Psychologist, and a National Board Certified Counselor. She has provided psychological services since 2014 and has been engaged in presenting research and conducting research focusing on marginalized populations, chronic health conditions, and traumatic stress. She has specialized in relationship issues, burn out and chronic stress, grief and loss, complex trauma, post-traumatic stress.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
The first session focuses on gathering information related to your struggles, symptoms you're experiencing, and information related to who you are and your personal history (i.e., family, friends, work, education, medical, etc.). This is to help get a greater understanding of how to best support you towards your own goals in wellness.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
She is a warm and empathic therapist who emphasizes multicultural sensitivity and the use of a holistic approach to therapy. She sees collaboration and genuine investment as necessary parts of the therapy process.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Dr. Burgo enjoys supporting adults interested in developing personal growth and self-care, as well as the development of assertiveness and communication skills for managing relationship boundaries with family, partners, friends, and colleagues. She specializes in treating adults struggling with anxiety, depression, stress and burn out, and adults who have had complex trauma histories.
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Relational
Dr. Burgo emphasizes the relationship between the client and therapist due to the profound benefits of doing therapeutic work in a relationship that feels safe, comfortable, and/or nonjudgmental as possible. The relationship becomes a significant element of the treatment that impacts the client's nervous system, and thus how the client shares and integrates information from the therapy session.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aids in breaking down the individual's presenting issues into a specific structure (i.e., identify and address emotions, thoughts, and behavioral patterns that reinforce symptoms) in order to make changes in the here and now that aid in movement towards short-term and long-term goals.
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-informed care is always brought into the therapeutic work regardless of degree or severity of traumas/life experiences because it honors the individual's nervous system and how it has been impacted by past and present experiences. Interventions used should always be done to honor and be mindful of the person's nervous system.
Humanistic
Humanistic approach is used to emphasis narratives used by the individual that either reinforces or alters emotions and behavioral patterns. Humanism also emphasizes embracing how a person uniquely finds a sense of connection, love, and alignment with oneself.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is an advanced form of therapeutic intervention that can be utilized in therapy to directly connect and work with the client's nervous system. It's a body-based experiential intervention that occurs at deeper levels allowing for enhanced therapeutic processing. Brainspotting can be integrated into the therapy treatment if the client wishes.