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Hello, I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with more than 15 years of experience working as an LCPC in private practice and as a staff psychotherapist in college counseling. I practice an integrative approach within a relational and cultural framework, incorporating strength-based, mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral theories. I enjoy working with people from diverse backgrounds with a cultural humility approach. I have experience in supervision/training, consultation, outreach, individual, group psychotherapy, and couples counseling. My areas of interest include life transition, family of origin issues, anxiety, grief, loss, racial stressors, relationship issues, intersectionality, and multicultural perspectives. I believe in creating a safe, empathetic, and supportive space to explore challenges, gain insight, improve self-awareness and self-acceptance, develop coping mechanisms, enhance communication, and break unhealthy, non-productive patterns, ultimately leading to more enriched, empowered, and productive life experiences and relationships.
In our first session, we will get to know each other better by exchanging introductions and reviewing your intake forms. We will discuss expectations, goals, and the process of creating a treatment plan tailored specifically to you. We will discuss policies concerning insurance, self-pay, late cancellation, and financial responsibility. I will also be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
I believe the client-counselor relationship is pivotal to the client's sense of safety in sharing and being vulnerable, as well as in engaging in the therapeutic work. I am passionate about helping others identify the origin of challenges and unhealthy, disruptive patterns of behavior or recurring issues relating to repetitive thoughts, feelings, and reactions that are disruptive and non-productive to relationships and one's life experience. The most courageous and rewarding journey is to have compassion for yourself. You deserve to live your best life.
Life can sometimes be challenging and painful. There are times when you need someone to talk to who is objective, an outside source that's compassionate and empathic, and will not only listen but also understand and “get it” without judgment. I enjoy working with clients from diverse backgrounds on a wide range of issues. Clients who feel stuck, stuck in old belief systems, and response patterns that are preventing them from living their best lives.
I use an integrative personalized approach within a relational and cultural framework with strength-based, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral-based theories.