Hi, I'm a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). I work with teens and adults experiencing depression, trauma, anxiety, loss/grief, identity issues, adjustment related stressors, women's issues, socio/political/cultural issues, self-esteem/body image concerns, highly sensitive people (HSP)/creative people, and spirituality. I enjoy helping others become more congruent and connected with their authentic selves in order to expand resiliency, emotional stability, and self-confidence.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, we'll start with a brief greeting and reviewing the intake forms that you signed. Then, we'll go into how you've been feeling and what factors, or life events, have been impacting your mood lately. I may ask about your background, early childhood experiences, and relationships with caretakers to get a better idea of how past experience may affect current thoughts/feelings.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strengths include providing a warm, safe and nonjudgmental space for clients to explore unfiltered thoughts and emotions. I help with identifying the root causes with current problems in life and reprocess those life experiences in order to heal repressed inner conflicts. l also integrate the mind and body, as these parts of us can become disconnected when we experience traumatic and/or stressful life events. By reconnecting ourselves with our body, we strengthen our intuition, listen to what our body is telling us, and create more certainty within ourselves and the life decisions that we make.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I'm passionate about helping adults who are going through hardships in life. My clients are eager to improve and want to gain insight, gain clarity about how past events may have impacted their lives today. They often feel invalidated, unheard, and confused about their family dynamics/relationship patterns, and how it may impact relationships and other areas of life. They may feel unsure about how external factors, such as politics, culture, and environmental stressors may also play a role in feeling overwhelmed and stressed.
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Person-centered (Rogerian)
This method focuses on the therapist being a calm, deep listener with a keen sensitivity to your needs while building a nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship through providing a warm, gentle space for you to process your unfiltered emotions. By the therapist providing deep empathy and unconditional positive regard, the method believes that clients would feel safe enough to realize their inner potential, gain self-confidence, and move towards self-actualization to find answers within themselves to resolve complex life problems. This method is great for depression, self-esteem, body image issues, highly sensitive people, loss/grief, and process-oriented clients looking for insight.
Narrative
This method is great for clients who are from marginalized and oppressed groups (e.g., LGBTQAI+, person of color, low income social class, victims of trauma, women, etc). The issues that minorities/marginalized groups face are problems that come from external factors, like political, social, cultural issues. This can lead to clients internalizing these issues that lead to blaming themselves and neglecting/disliking parts of themselves. By externalizing life problems through storytelling, this allows clients to reconnect and accept parts of themselves that they felt pressured to “give up” due to being marginalized. We focus on tracing the history of the problem, exploring the effects of it, and explore how changes in our narrative can shape how we view ourselves. This is great for trauma, depression, self-esteem, body image, highly sensitive people, etc for people from marginalized communities. This is not limited to the areas mentioned above and can be versatile for other issues.
Compassion Focused
The purpose of compassion focused therapy is to increase self-compassion within ourselves to increase our well-being, tolerating stress, and being kind to ourselves. Allowing ourselves to be compassionate towards others and ourselves can enhance self-soothing ourselves, forgiving ourselves for past mistakes, positive thinking, and regulating emotions. This is good for clients experiencing depression, anxiety, guilt/shame, perfectionism, loss/grief, self-criticism, coping skills, and relationships with others. This is also versatile and can be used with other presenting issues too.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness focuses on being aware of the present through a variety of meditative practices. The focus of this is that we spend so much time worrying about the future or the past, that we forget to enjoy the present moment. This is great for client with chronic depression, coping skills, chronic life stressors (e.g., stressful work environment), burnout, anxiety, loss/grief, etc
Eclectic
Eclectic Therapy is a way to individualize treatment depending on what the client brings to therapy. It’s a mixture of other modalities combined to tailor to client’s unique and idiosyncratic needs, especially clients who have more than 1 diagnosis. This type of work values that each client is different, so I can use a combination of Person Centered, CBT, mindfulness, attachment theory, Gestalt, Narrative, psychodynamic, etc. Whichever is relevant with the client.