Hi, I'm Analia. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Certified School Counselor in Virginia, as well as a National Board Certified Counselor. As a therapist working in English or Spanish, I am interested in helping you address your counseling goals whether they are to discover yourself, to feel better, to adjust to life's transitions, to improve your relationships, to grieve the loss of a loved one, or to find balance in your busy life. Together we can work on you achieving your optimal wellbeing. I studied at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, at Virginia Tech, and George Mason University. I have over twenty years of experience in private practice and in public schools at the secondary level in Arlington, Virginia. I use an eclectic approach to therapy, with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brief-Solution Oriented techniques, Mindfulness, Psycho-education with Interpersonal skills, and Structural/Strategic Couple's Therapy strategies. Through any of those approaches, I am here to work with you on your emotional health. I have supervised Master’s level students in School Counseling at George Washington University for three years. I have worked extensively with teenagers, adults, couples, and families helping them navigate the spectrum of presenting problems that they bring to therapy. I am looking forward to working with you, too!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
During our first session we will spend some time reviewing Intake forms and procedures. I might ask you questions about your life, so that I get a good picture as to what brings you to therapy. I will try to get to know you during our first session, to include your strengths, what strategies have worked for you before, and what solutions you have tried to the problems you bring to therapy. During our first session we might discuss interventions you could try on your own until I see you again.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a therapist, I have experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, loss and grief, relocation, mid-life crisis, immigration, and career exploration and changes. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I specialize in issues related to relationships, family reunification, blended families, and couples counseling. I enjoy counseling in English or Spanish. I embrace cultural diversity and work with clients from all different backgrounds.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
When working with CBT techniques I use cognitive restructuring to enable the client to look into their own life, fostering alternative insights and resulting in new behavioral outcomes. Through guided discovery, as the clients process the events of their lives, they develop new cognitive frameworks that produce emotional balance and new behavioral patterns.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
During the process of therapy clients are encouraged to look at their own personal goals and how to obtain 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 a pattern of looking for solutions instead of the problems to their own personal lives.
On average, Surest (formerly Bind) clients pay $0-$25
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