Hey there friend, I’m Dr. Ryan Terao I am a licensed clinical psychologist who who specializes in supporting those doing their best to navigate this experience we call life. I partner with my clients to discover, observe, and reconnect with their value and find more effective ways to achieve their goals. In each session, I aim to provide my clients with new perspectives and tangible skills to adjust their mindsets to help them be more intentional in living out their values in their life.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Our first consultation call will take around 30 minuets and we will briefly get to know each other and what you would like to work on together. We will discuss goals for our work together, outline a general approach to achieve your goals, and answer any questions you might have about the timeline of treatment. Our official relationship begins after we both sign therapy agreements and complete our intake session. After the intake session we will have 10 sessions to work together to address your defined goals! At the conclusion of our sessions we will review your progress in therapy, provide recommendations, and consider next steps to continue your growth.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

As a therapist it's always fun hearing my clients say, "I never thought of it that way before". My strength as a therapist is my ability to observe my client's through the different relationships they maintain and how it affects their thoughts, actions, and emotions. Through my causal and relatable style I aim to help my clients see themselves and situations in a more realistic and healthy way.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

I enjoy working with young adult and developing professionals to develop more insight into themselves, what gets in their way, and how they can be more active in creating who they want to become. Increasing my client's sense of awareness allows them to check their impulses and practice guiding their attention on what they want to focus on. Let's face it there's a lot going on and it makes sense why people experience anxiety. To support my client's resiliency we objectively observe their behaviors, the functions behind them, and create more effective systems to active their goals. Often just underneath our avoidant behaviors and self handicapping behaviors lies our true wants and intentions. Yet our fears somehow keep us from doing something differently, even if it's to look and acknowledge. Learning how to manage anxiety means understanding your relationship with it, how it's trying to keep you safe, and how to hear it in a different light. Our experience of anxiety and depression may never truly "go away". But our ability to manage and allow it affect us is something we can work on!

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