Carina Castillo
Hi there, I'm Carina! I identify as a first generation Mexican-American woman that is proud of her roots, culture, and ability to help you. I wanted to provide that space for others and give back to my world in a positive way. My goals for you Thank you for taking the first step in your healing journey. I'm hoping to walk alongside you as you navigate what brings you here. I work with first generation Latinos, individuals facing interpersonal struggles, teens and adults with depression and anxiety, families, and those maneuvering trauma, life changes, and grief. My approach Theoretically speaking, I utilize an eclectic approach, which means that I tailor the therapy to your specific needs using the approaches that best fit your needs. I have a humanistic approach and utilize interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and gestalt, among other approaches to aid youon your journey to heal. My communication style In the therapy room, I treat you as the expert in your life. I provide tools, coping skills, insights, and interventions to help you move past roadblocks. All your inner thoughts are welcome here, and we work at your pace. This is your safe place where you should feel comfortable. My goals for you It is a collaboration where I want to hear what you, as a client, want to achieve, and I work with you in getting to a place where you feel comfortable achieving the goals we set.
First session
Peace, I know it sounds strange, but I have heard a lot of people find a renewed sense of peace. There is a celebration of the wins and a win is showing up for yourself and rendering to the process. First session is a getting to know one another, your origin story, and a lot of collaboration on what therapy moving forward looks like for you.
Strengths
My approach stands out because I am a human in the room alongside you and your journey to heal. I am honored, motivated, and enthusiastic in our working together. My vocation and approach to our work as a vocation helps the work on my end of things. There is a consensus with the folks I work with that I deliver a safe space that I aim to provide in every interaction with you.
Ideal clients
My Ideal Client is someone who has either a lot of experience with therapy or none. I work well with a full range of clients and have been able to see that the clients that work best with me are those that are ready to put in the work. The three pillars of working with any client is honesty, trust, and communication, if you feel this is you then let us begin the healing journey together. I have had the pleasure of working with people of all kinds of stages in their lives, healing their grief, understanding their trauma, or identifying their inner workings. I run a solution-focused practice and help navigate a lot of the negative cognition that may or may not be present.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral therapy and all forms of therapy in my practice are tools that help me navigate to where it is you want to go. There are forms of interventions that I may explicitly state the therapy modality, in this case CBT, and others that I do not. The main thing you need to worry about in our work together is that you are honest, trusting, and communicative.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment therapy and all forms of therapy in my practice are tools that help me navigate to where it is you want to go. There are forms of interventions that I may explicitly state the therapy modality, in this case ACT, and others that I do not. I utlize the different important interventions case by case in the moment, therapy is a science and an art form. The main thing you need to worry about in our work together is that you are honest, trusting, and communicative.
Compassion Focused
Compassion-focused therapy and all forms of therapy in my practice are tools that help me navigate to where it is you want to go. Think of it like we are going on an adventure and this is a trail that can help lead us in the direction of your end goal, it is important only in that it is part of our journey not that it is the end goal. There are forms of interventions that I may explicitly state the therapy modality and others that I do not. The main thing you need to worry about in our work together is that you are honest, trusting, and communicative throughout treatment.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Therapy and all forms of therapy in my practice are tools that help me navigate to where it is you want to go. There are forms of interventions that I may explicitly state the therapy modality, in this case Mindfulness, and others that I do not. There is many a times I will offer grounding techniques that directly relate to the Mindfulness Based techniques. This is not a mandatory part of my work. For all my work I take an eclectic approach all techniques will be sprinkled in based on need.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Most of my practice comes naturally from this form and school of ideology that at the basis all humans are worthy and deserve the benefit of the doubt. In reality as mentioned before there will be interventions that can be cut and dry Person centered but mostly in this particular case it is the perspective and embodiment of my work and shows in many aspects of my work with you.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- CaliforniaLicense 132758