New to Grow
Hello and welcome to therapy! You’ve taken the first step towards finding your way through some of life's challenging situations. I am Lydia Torres, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health (LCMHC) in North Carolina with over 10 years of experience providing therapy in English/Spanish. I provide comprehensive therapy to help improve my clients' psychological, emotional, and mental health. Helping you navigate life's difficult situations is my motivation in life. I have an eclectic approach to counseling by engaging you in evidenced based strategies such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, person-centered therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and trauma informed CBT therapy to redirect negative thinking patterns that you may be experiencing. I work with children, adolescents, and adults ages (6-64). I will support you and help you navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief symptoms. I believe therapy is a safe refuge to journey on to receive emotional healing and peace-of-mind. I will come alongside you to help you work through life's challenging circumstances to help you reach your goals in life. Outside the office, I enjoy cooking, playing with my dog, exercise, running, traveling, singing, and spending time with my family.
During the first session, you can expect a warm environment that is genuine and compassionate. I will meet and greet with you to build rapport and explain what my role in your care is. I will begin the session by asking questions to gather information about your areas of concern, challenges, history, and what you hope to achieve in therapy. We’ll discuss the treatment process, including any specific approaches or techniques that might be implemented, and outline the goals for our work together. In addition, we will also discuss the inform consent, what is a dual relationship and its limitations, healthy boundaries, and safety planning in case of a crisis. I will outline what to expect in this session. We will review confidentiality and safety protocols to ensure a secure virtual environment. The informed consent will be discussed, and you will be provided enough information about therapy to make an informed decision to engage in therapy. This includes confidentiality, and the treatment provided. I will discuss what brought you to therapy, medical, mental health history, and your goals for therapy. We will work as a team to create realistic and achievable goals for therapy ensuring a productive session.
I enjoy working with clients in need of mental health treatment. I'm a down-to-earth therapist who genuinely cares about the psychological, emotional, and mental well-being of my clients. What stands out about me is my warm approach to therapy that helps clients relax and "spill their beans" because they feel comfortable opening up to me. My active listening skills oozes confidence in others which helps them open up to me and to tell me their problems. During my experience as a therapist, the outcomes have been positive for my clients notable in an improvement of the past negative / traumatic symptoms. My clients feel comfortable with me and are able to disclose what is really on their mind because they feel supported in a non-judgmental warm environmental that provides active listening skills.
An ideal client is one who I am positioned to serve because they have come to terms with regards to working through their emotions. They are tired of the negative thoughts and are motivated to change the negative patterns of life that inflict emotional pain. The ideal client is open-minded to working through the issues of concern because they are tired of the negative thoughts and emotions. This client has come to terms with the need to process their areas of concern such as anxiety, depression, and trauma to resolve the negative thoughts and free themselves from negative experiences.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i)
I've been using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in my practice for the past nine years. CBT has been effective with helping my clients redirect negative thoughts to manage anxiety. We'll engage in CBT therapy interventions to gain awareness of how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and influence negative thinking. We'll use the knowledge gain to redirect the negative thought patterns to help you decrease anxiety and improve your level of stress to help you live a stress-free life.
Grief Therapy
I've been using grief therapy in my practice to help my clients process overwhelming emotions as a result of loss. Together we will identify coping strategies to help you manage overwhelming emotions like sadness, anger, anxiety or depression by supporting you through the grief process. We will work on the healing process and facilitating what is your "new normal."
Eclectic
As an eclectic therapist, I've integrated an eclectic therapy approach by engaging clients in personalized interventions that combine various theoretical approaches (e.g., such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic, and family systems) by tailoring treatment to help meet the needs of my clients. The focus of treatment outcome is to improve negative thought patterns, address trauma, and engage in mindfulness relaxation to meet their specific needs.
Trauma-Focused CBT
As a Trauma-Focused CBT, I engage clients and non-offending caregiver in narrative therapy to address past traumatic experiences. I've been implementing evidenced based psychotherapy to treat PTSD, depression, and behavioral issues in children and adolescents (ages 6 - 18) due to past trauma. It involves the combination of cognitive behavioral principles with trauma sensitive techniques, involving the child and their non-offending caregiver which includes over 12 -25 sessions.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
As a licensed therapist, I engage my clients in Person-Centered Therapy and create a supportive and non-judgmental space where you feel truly heard acknowledging that you are the expert of your own life. The focus is on being authentic to augment a strong therapeutic alliance, allowing you to explore your thoughts and feelings openly. By focusing on your own self-discovery and growth, Person-Centered Therapy helps you gain awareness, confidence, and a sense that you have the ability self-actualize because you are the expert of your own life. As your therapist, my primary goal is to assist you with gaining a clearer understanding of yourself, reduce incongruency between your ideal and real self-improving self-confidence. As a result, you will find solutions to your personal issues of concern due to an increase in self-confidence and ability to regulate emotions and improve decision-making and interpersonal skills.