LCSW, 29 years of experience
New to Grow
Hi, my name is Eva. I have been practicing in the mental health and substance-abuse field for almost 30 years and during that time I have come to learn a lot about what it takes to help a person move from one place to another and it has also taught me how to move from one place to another so that I too can live my best life . I believe that we all need help from time to time and someone to help us see clearly when we have difficulty seeing things clearly ourselves. My best practice of therapy is being eclectic, which means in simple terms that I use whatever technique I need to to reach my client wherever they are at. This includes all best practices that are evidence-based to work with women, young adults, men and children who all have a common need to feel heard and supported. I specialize in a variety of treatment modalities that include trauma, substance abuse, anxiety/ depression, and other mood/mental disorders, and I desire to help all my clients improve their current life situation so that they can begin to live their best lives.
During our initial assessment, this will be the time that I will be listening to the client. Tell me what they feel the problem they’re having is. I will ask questions and I will give feedback. All of this is done so that I can accurately assess and provide a diagnosis that is accurate to describe what is actually happening to an individual/couple or group. If necessary, I will spread it over to sessions after that I will explain to the client the diagnosis that I have come to and explain to them why and how this particular diagnosis fits their situation. I will also discuss with them at that time a treatment plan, which is what we would use to determine how we are going to help resolve the issue so that the client can begin to see growth in themselves and a light at the end of the tunnel as they travel toward well-being and practicing good self-care.
I feel that my greatest strength comes from my background working with various populations in various settings that has given me the ability to see a person, not by circumstance or situation, but as an individual with a need, my job is to help them fulfill that need or remove the obstacle that is preventing them from living their best life.
I love working with women to help them see themselves differently, despite the things that they were told were true, or that they thought were true. I love when the light comes on and they see themselves differently and can go forward and know that they have a voice, and they know how to utilize it for their own self improvement. I enjoy working with couples, helping them fall in love again by seeing each other from the eyes they saw each other with when they first met. I just enjoy working with people and helping them change their life, for the better no matter what the circumstances or who they are.
I use this form of therapy to help a client relax and to tell me what situations they are experiencing from their point of view and use that dialogue to help them evaluate what they have said and how we can use that as a strength to resolve the issue or what skills we need to develop to enable you to better cope with your situation and how to approve upon your situation by developing boundaries that help you better manage your life issues.
I enjoy working with couples and helping them learn how to communicate more effectively and how to have a separate identity from their partner, and how to help them move through hard feelings with accountability that can lead to change. It’s also important that both that partners learn how to be vulnerable with their significant other and remember intimacy is also a form of communication that expresses that person’s love language which may be different from their own and I would work with them to identify and communicate their needs to their partner.
One of the most difficult things it is to do is to accept something, especially if you don’t want to, and never learned how to but using acceptance, commitment therapy I am able to help people move from one place to another by excepting change, and not being afraid of it, and making a commitment to themselves how they can continue to change for their own betterment.
I like to use an eclectic approach to therapy because it allows me to use different modalities, depending upon where the person is at in the type of therapy that they need in that specific moment. Ex: cognitive behavioral. behavioral modification, abstinence, acceptance commitment therapy, etc.
Family therapy is essential because something doesn’t happen to an individual in a family. It happens to the entire family and often times smaller people in the family. Don’t get the voice how they feel about it or to help them understand it but recognizing that they have vulnerabilities and big feelings allows the adults to acknowledge that they have big feelings about what happened to also and together the family is able to process What happened.