Analia Almada
Analia Almada is a therapist licensed in the state of Virginia with experience in private practice, community mental health settings, and public high schools. As a Bilingual therapist fully fluent in Spanish, she is warm, empathic, supportive, and culturally sensitive when working with clients. With a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires, continuing with counseling training at Virginia Tech and George Mason University, she brings a deep understanding of diversity to therapy. Analia Almada will work with you on addressing your unique counseling needs, whether they involve self-discovery, emotional healing, navigating life transitions, improving relationships, processing grief, or finding balance during challenging times. Analia provides a supportive, collaborative, non-judgmental and open space for her clients.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I specialize in issues related to relationships, family reunification, blended families, and couples counseling.
Analia Almada has developed an eclectic approach to therapy, from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Solution-Focused strategies, Mindfulness, Strength-Based practices, and Person-Centered techniques. This flexible approach allows her to develop a plan that works to target your unique needs and goals. I invite you to begin this journey of therapy together!
First session
During the intake session you will spend some time reviewing forms and procedures with your therapist. Analia Almada might then ask you questions about your life, so that she gets a good picture as to what brings you to therapy. She will try to get to know you during the course of the first session, to include listening to your history, your strengths, what strategies you have tried before and what solutions have worked for you so far. You will set goals of treatment together and discuss possible interventions you could try on your own until she sees you again.
Strengths
As a therapist, Analia has experience working with multicultural and immigrant individuals, couples, and families experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship issues, coping skills, recovering from trauma and grief, relocation, family of origin concerns and generational patterns, life transitions, and career exploration and changes. As a Marriage and Family Therapist Analia specializes in relationships, changes in family dynamics, family reunification, blended families, and couples counseling. Analia is fully fluent in Spanish. She embraces cultural diversity and works with clients from all different backgrounds.
Ideal clients
Analia Almada works best with adolescents and adults going through life transitions, relationship problems, who are experiencing difficulties managing their emotions or adjusting to life changing circumstances such graduations, relocations, job moves, marriage, separation, divorce, or changing family dynamics, to name a few. She specializes in late adolescents and adults of all ages seeking to improve their coping and mood regulation skills, to include incorporating better conflict resolution and communication tools in their relationships, while changing focus on the present and on what emotions and behaviors can be managed or controlled. Ultimately, the clients bring their own therapeutic goals and the sessions focus on achieving these goals through therapeutic strategies and interventions.
Origin story
Analia Almada considered studying psychology after taking the subject as a senior in high school. Growing up in Argentina, she attended the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and later received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from UBA in Psychology. She attended Virginia Tech to complete her post-master's degree to become a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia. Analia also attended George Mason University to become a Certified Professional School Counselor and follow her passion of working with English Learners in public high schools.
Ongoing work together
In follow-up sessions you will work with your therapist on processing the events that are triggering your concerns, while discussing and selecting interventions to apply during the course of treatment to achieve the goals you set in therapy. Therapy will end when you achieve the goals of treatment, which might be within 6-8 sessions (the standard length of therapy) or longer, according to your needs.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
When working with CBT strategies I use cognitive restructuring to enable clients to look into their own lives, fostering alternative insights that result in new behavioral outcomes. Through guided discovery, as the clients process the events of their lives, they develop new perspectives that lead to emotional balance and new patterns of behaviors, creating change and overall life satisfaction as they see themselves in control of their actions.
Solution-Focused Brief Treatment
During the process of therapy clients are encouraged to search for their own personal goals, establish strategies for how to achieve them, discover their strengths to empower their behavioral choices, recall what has worked for them before that they can recreate in the future, and establish habits for refocusing on the solutions to the concerns that bring them to therapy.
Strength-Based
We will be tapping on your skills and on how you have been able to tackle personal problems before with the use of your strengths, to move you forward.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- VirginiaLicense 0701003687