I truly enjoy working with adolescents, young adults, and families struggling to bring some balance to their lives and to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, ADHD, social anxiety, school phobia, and other issues affecting one's daily life functioning. My goal is to work towards helping you understand yourself better to experience improvement in your daily life. Let's build a plan together to make this change a reality. I have a great deal of clinical, teaching, and administrative experience. I enjoy working with clients who want to make school, vocational, career, life, or family transitions, coping with the harsh and intense stressors of daily life, and helping to bring a sense of calm, control, confidence, happiness, and most of all balance back to your daily life.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, I will share a little bit about myself, and then I will ask you to share about the specific challenges you are currently facing. This will help me create a tailored short-term therapy plan for us to work through in subsequent sessions.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I feel that one of my greatest strengths is that I am a kind, active and empathic listener. I give my clients the opportunity to openly share their thoughts and feelings in a safe space. I also believe in open feedback and ask my clients to share what is working best for them to make this experience as effective as possible. I try to utilize humor and other positive strategies to bring some light in.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT significantly improves functioning and quality of life. In many studies, CBT has been demonstrated to be as effective as, or more effective than, other forms of psychological therapy or psychiatric medications.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapy is extremely important to me as a therapist. It is an approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client’s background and belief system as it relates to their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or other important elements that makeup someone’s culture and/or identity. Therapists can incorporate cultural sensitivity into their work to accommodate and respect differences in the opinions, values, and attitudes of various cultures.Cultural sensitivity allows a therapist to gain and maintain cultural competence, which is the ability to first recognize and understand one’s own culture and how it influences one's relationship with a client, then understand and respond to a culture that is different from one’s own. The need for this understanding may be based on characteristics such as age, beliefs, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I have been practicing mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for over 15 years and find that it is a very effective tool to help clients who are struggling with emotional regulation or mood disorders such as anxiety and/or depression.
Positive Psychology
I enjoy utilizing techniques from a positive psychology frame of reference, which allows a client to focus on building positive behavioral skills and less of a focus on the disease model of therapeutic intervention. It is a growth mindset intervention model.
Psychoeducation
Empowering clients to take ownership of their lives is important to me. Utilizing a psychoeducational approach as a therapeutic intervention whereby the therapist provides the client with information about their diagnosis, symptoms, or the method of treatment used. This is often provided in the form of short reading materials or videos to watch and discuss in subsequent sessions.