LPC, 28 years of experience
New to Grow
My name is Viviana Vethencourt, I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 25 years of experience supporting clients in their journey of transformation from emotional pain, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, sad, irritable, to the life they want where they can navigate life transitions, create healthier relationships, work on their goals, or find peace and calm in their lives. I meet my clients where they are at with an integrative approach, we work with past experiences and present needs, through insights, acceptance and learning new patterns.
The first session will be our intake. We will discuss the present situation in depth and look into past experiences and trauma that might be impacting the present situation. We will also look at your life as a whole paying attention to other areas of your life since they are all connected. At the end of the session we will set our treatment goals and we will decide how to work on those in terms of frequency and framework.
I am a great listener and I am very good at understanding the big picture, I can integrate all the information to have a good idea of my clients as whole individuals. I'm also very good at identifying needs and the best techniques and treatment for those needs. I'm a very honest person and believe in personal responsibility and change, and that we can only work with what is ours and what we can control.
My ideal clients are adults from 20 to 65 years old that want to create a different life for themselves and learn healthier and more productive coping skills, emotional regulation strategies, and better communication skills in order to establish healthier relationships and work on their goals. If you feel overwhelmed, anxious, sad, irritable, having a hard time going through a life transition or just not enjoying your life as you would like to, I would love to help you navigate your situation and learn the necessary skills to change.
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as the primary treatment method combined with other techniques that help me support my client working with their emotions, thought and behaviors, as well as beliefs, and traumatic experiences that might impact their lives in the present. I've work with this framework for over 25 years helping clients make the changes they need to make, as well as learning new and more productive thoughts, habits and emotional regulation skills.
The first step to manage and regulate emotions or to change something in your life is acceptance of the present situation, of our experience and history. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients to accept what they need to accept in order to make the changes they need to make to move forward.
the premises of attachment-based treatment are that our experiences with our care givers and other relationships in our early life and growing up will teach us beliefs and patterns pertaining to the way we establish and function in relationships. This treatment modality help the clients process past experiences, beliefs and patterns that are not productive and learn more productive ones to establish relationships, set boundaries and work on new ways to approach relationships.
My approach to couples counseling is a collaborative approach. I support the individuals in a couple to learn to be vulnerable and communicate their needs and boundaries to their partners in order to create a healthier dynamic and work through patterns and resentments that are not productive for their relationship.
I believe each person is a complete individual and their mental aspects, patterns, emotions are deeply connected with their physical aspects, which makes me look at both, their physical health and mental health, paying special attention to aspects such as nutrition, sleep and movement and how it impacts their mental health. I hold a certification in Integrative Mental Health