Edmond Otis
Hi. My name is Edmond Otis, and I'm a licensed therapist with 27 years of professional experience. I focus on helping clients who are experiencing a wide range of challenges including; stress and anxiety, relationship problems, depression, performance and motivation concerns, a lack of self-confidence and self-esteem, career difficulties, and other related issues. I maintain a small, but consistent, practice as I also consult, teach, and speak on how relationships work, stress, resilience, performance, communication, team-building, family, achieving goals, improving critical outcomes, negotiation and conflict resolution.
I've developed and taught courses at the university and graduate level in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Health Psychology, Sport Psychology, and Therapeutic Rapport.
I've developed and taught courses at the university and graduate level in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Health Psychology, Sport Psychology, and Therapeutic Rapport.
First session
Starting with our first session we introduce ourselves to each other to see if I can be helpful to you. What are the challenges you're facing? How do you understand your situation? Do you understand it? Also, important for me - and sometimes this will take us a while to actually figure out - what are your actual goals for therapy? How will you know the therapy is being useful? If it is useful, how will things be different?
Strengths
I think that my biggest strengths are acceptance, empathy, insight, and an understanding of the continual (and sometimes really confusing) interplay that exists between our thoughts and our emotions. When it's useful, I feel that I have the capacity to help clients use strategic and outcome focused thinking - to help them make the changes they need to make – in order to reach the goals want to reach. Also, sometimes I'm funny.
Ideal clients
From experience, and outcomes, I'm comfortable and have been successful working with young, middle aged, and older adults, couples, and families, from a broad range of backgrounds. You’ll notice from my list of 13 clinical specialties (listed below) that three are highlighted because they apply to so many different aspects of our lives. - Anxiety: is a natural part to the human experience. Since we are able to think about the future – it’s also natural that we spend some time worrying about it. However, when anxiety becomes overwhelming, it can cloud our thinking, interfere with important decisions, and impact our health. I focus on anxiety because it often underlies many of the psychological, emotional, and relationship challenges we face. An important aspect of therapy is to help us find ways to manage anxiety so that it informs us rather than controls us. - Coping Skills: are really important. We all possess natural strengths and abilities that can help us navigate life's challenges—the key is learning how to access and use them effectively. From my training, experience, and research, I feel that effective therapy must focus on helping clients develop these interconnected skills: managing our thoughts, understanding our emotions, acting in our own best interest, and building healthy relationships with others. These four areas work together like a support system, and strengthening them is at the heart of effective therapy - Self-Esteem: impacts everything we do and all of our relationships. Basically, it’s how we feel about ourselves. But also – do we have our own back? If we can improve our self-esteem, we make better choices. And when we make better choices - we often improve our self-esteem. The trouble is that it works in reverse as well. Low self-esteem may contribute to poor choices – and those poor choices often serve to re-enforce our low self-esteem. Helping clients understand this cycle is key to our breaking free from negative patterns.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have trained, studied, and practiced CBT for quite some time. Additionally, I've developed and taught year-long CBT courses at the university and graduate level for therapists from a broad range of therapy backgrounds. I believe that CBT’s focus, an understanding of the continual (and often bewildering) interaction that exists between our thoughts, our emotions, and our behaviors, is essential for any changes we want to make.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
This modality is useful, and effective, in helping clients identify and reach their goals in the simplest and least complicated way possible.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
This method helps us understand, and process, our emotions in a way that allows us to have more control over our behaviors, our feelings, our decisions, our relationships, our sense of self, and our wellbeing - which in turn has a positive effect on our emotions.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- CaliforniaLicense 31194
- FloridaLicense MT4713
- VirginiaLicense 0717002258