As a Florida-based LMHC, I offer personalized counseling and brainspotting therapy to help clients overcome various challenges, including anxiety, depression, stress and relationship issues. By creating a supportive and welcoming environment tailored to your unique needs, our partnership will empower you to build resilience, balance, and personal growth. I am eager to join you on your journey toward a more fulfilling and balanced life, and I am confident that our collaborative approach will enable us to overcome obstacles and help you reach your full potential.
When we first meet, you'll be welcomed into a warm and accepting environment where we'll begin building the foundation for your therapeutic journey. We'll start by discussing confidentiality and informed consent, ensuring your privacy and comfort throughout the process. Our primary focus is creating a safe, supportive space where you feel heard, understood, and empowered to share your concerns and experiences. We will collaboratively explore your challenges, past experiences, and strengths to identify your unique needs and goals. Together, we will create a tailored plan to guide your therapeutic journey, utilizing the most effective strategies for your specific concerns. This partnership fosters self-awareness, growth, and lasting change, setting you on a path towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.
As a compassionate and adaptable counselor, I acknowledge that life's challenges can be unpredictable. I am committed to providing a supportive environment where clients feel understood and validated. By staying flexible and adjusting my methods to clients' evolving needs, I strive to empower them with the tools and insights necessary to foster resilience and make positive, lasting changes in their lives.
I am equipped to serve clients who are navigating the complexities of managing personal and family responsibilities. I am in a culturally diverse, blended family and feel that gives me an insight into helping others. With a decade of experience in community mental health and private practice, my expertise lies in supporting teenagers and adults facing adjustment challenges, anxiety, and relationship issues. By drawing upon my personal and professional experiences, I can provide empathetic and insightful guidance to help clients improve their overall well-being and develop healthy coping strategies to overcome life's obstacles.
Using CBT techniques has helped clients understand the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and actions. The client will learn to recognize how their thoughts influence their feelings and behaviors. Coping skills will manage distressing thoughts and emotions.
During a brainspotting session, I will guide the client's attention to specific eye positions, or "brainspots," that are believed to be linked to the activation of traumatic memories or emotional experiences stored in the brain. I will facilitate the client in identifying and focusing on these brainspots while maintaining a state of mindfulness and openness to their inner experiences. This process allows the client to access deeper levels of emotional processing and release the stored trauma or distress associated with these memories.
I will use active listening to understand the underlying emotions and meaning with what the client reports. I will convey my understanding and will encourage the client to explore their feelings. The client will determine the topics they want to share.
I will assist the client in focusing on identifying and building solutions rather than analyzing problem. We will collaborate setting clear and specific goals and identify the client's strengths and existing solutions.
I will assist the client on focusing on increasing awareness of the moment without judgement, learning to set boundaries, express needs, navigating interpersonal conflicts, identifying and managing intense emotions, and distress tolerance.