Hey y’all! My name is Hope and I work as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) here with Grow. Currently, I work remotely based in California. I received my undergraduate degree in Critical Gender Studies from UCSD and my Masters Degree in 2020 from SDSU in multicultural Counseling & Social Justice. I’ve worked in the Mental Health field since 2016.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Our first session after the intake varies; it will depend on the clinical needs of the client and their comfort level. Some client’s are ready to jump right in while others are still learning how to be vulnerable and establish trust. I’m here to go at your pace. I believe that therapy is a relationship we both cultivate; that first session is just the start.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I don’t believe that every therapist is for everyone; and sometimes, it can take trying on a few different therapist before meeting your fit. Keeping this in mind, I do my best to show up as not only a professional but also myself. I bring my educational background, therapeutic skills and personality into our space. It’s important that my client’s feel comfortable and work’s with someone they can find to be relatable. I never promise a client that I will “fix” or “heal” them. What I will promise is confidence in my abilities to hear, hold space for, and support you in reaching what it is that you are after.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
My experience ranges from working with teenager’s, young adolescents, adults through middle age entering into their senior years. Majority of my clients have intersectional identities that unfortunately come along with complex trauma and PTSD. Sometimes, these trauma’s bring depression, anxiety, OCD, or personality disorders. I’m here to support my client’s to feel empowered throughout their mental health journey.
About Hope Czbas
Hope Czbas offers therapy covered by CalViva Health (Medi-Cal), Central California Alliance for Health (Medi-Cal), Community Health Plan of Imperial Valley (Medi-Cal), Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Health Net (Medi-Cal), Health Plan of San Joaquin - Medi-Cal, L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Orange County Mental Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal) and San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal) in California.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I first started using CBT with clients recovering from substance use while facing co-occurring disorders within mental health. CBT is an important framework that supports clients with taking the time to understand their day to day triggers. You can expect to learn how to cognitively reframe your thoughts, feelings and actions toward their self, others, and the world that are impacting your growth.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapy is at the foundation of every interaction I have with my client’s. Meeting a client with unconditional positive regard for their cultural practices, intersectionalities, sexuality, gender presentations, religion, socioeconomic status and beliefs is of importance and priority. I work to approach cultural conversations through a lens of social justice, being sure to create a space of safety & understanding while challenging any implicit bias and stereotypes that may be present in our space.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
I’ve been practicing Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for two years with client’s looking to understand and work through their trauma. CPT is a manual therapy that incorporates weekly homework. The homework is necessary, for it truly challenges our thoughts about the self, others, and the world that keep us stuck in trauma & PTSD. I choose to utilize CPT for trauma because I have seen it truly work. What you put into CPT is what you’ll receive back. The process can seem daunting at first, but there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing a client empowered to reclaim their life.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) is a form of therapy I've been able to use this last year with clients experiencing specific phobias and / or those diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). ERP helps a client to face their fears, obsessions and compulsions head on as opposed to avoiding or over engaging. It’s important to work through thoughts and behaviors that keep us stuck in unhealthy living and coping patterns. ERP is very unique in the way that the client and the therapist work together to find creative ways to tackle the aforementioned challenges.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a therapeutic framework that works to target four specific areas: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation skills, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. I have been using DBT the last six years and have found it to have a multiplicity of usages. DBT works to expand the limitations of one perception. Results range from strengthening one’s ability to be present, establishing and maintaining secure interpersonal relationships, practice of effective problem solving, an increase in one's emotional intelligence and provides a greater capacity for stress. I use DBT in combination with skills from Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gestalt for best results. (EFT & Gestalt incorporate skills that align well with the specific target areas of DBT).