Hello! I am Licensed Clinical Psychologist based in California. I would like to offer you guidance and to help you navigate life if you feel misunderstood, incapacitated due to a loss, isolated, anxious, traumatized, struggling to keep your relationships, or burned out from caring for others in your family or your job. I will validate your feelings, facilitate your discovery of answers within you, find new ways of coping and being, and hopefully, find meaning in your experiences so you can feel more grounded.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, we will begin with a brief introductions of getting to know one another. We will then dive into what brought you to therapy and challenges you are currently facing. I may provide anxiety and depression or other assessments to understand your symptoms. Finally, we will determine your therapy goals in order to develop actions plans for future sessions.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked with individuals for the 7+ years, many of my clients have informed me that I am a very compassionate individual, who have helped them to overcome trauma, burnout, anxiety, depression, and many more mental illnesses. I achieved this through helping my clients understand themselves better, giving them valuable tools and coping skills to make better choices, communicate more effectively to address their needs, becoming calmer and more regulated, love and accept themselves, and continue to work towards being healed and whole.
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Compassion Focused
I believe that any treatment should begin with showing compassion by attuning with client and meeting them where they are at. This treatment modality provides the feelings of being heard, validated, and accepted. I augment compassion focused with other therapies such as Attachment based, Acceptance Commitment, CBT, DBT, Interpersonal, Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness, Integrative, Psychodynamic, and Trauma Based Therapies. This has proven greatly effective for my clients for the 7+ years I have been practicing.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic approach looks at what defenses one has developed in response to their past experiences which are affecting their lives currently, often showing up as anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems. Psychodynamic approach can also inform the way one is relating to others interpersonally. Through explorations, one becomes aware of what they are doing and are able to choose to take actions that are more beneficial to them. I am trained in psychodynamic approaches including Attachment, Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Gestalt, Humanistic, Narrative, and Existential approaches. I believe that although core approach such as CBT is important to incorporate in ones treatment, psychodynamic approaches are integral in garnering deeper understanding and healing. Changes made after treatment tend to be longer lasting as they reach deeper into ones psyche and unearth core issues to work on.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
It is important to realize that our state of mind is in part a product of how we think. Once we become aware of our tendency to adopt negative thinking, we have a greater chance of happiness by reframing these thoughts and beliefs. Cognitive behavior therapy is effective to manage anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, perfectionism, negative view of the world, and trauma. I use this approach in combination with the other approaches I mentioned in order to provide a greater overall healing throughout my years of practice.
Attachment-based
Understanding one's attachment style is not only healing on an individual level but can help heal ones' relationships with loved ones because one can modify the way they react to another. In my therapeutic relationships with my clients, I strive to help them to rebuild their attachment styles to a more secure attachment style. My experience with this modality started when I began my practicum 11 years ago working with new mothers attaching to their babies. Mothers' learning to be aware of their own attachment styles can modify they way they react to their babies, providing them with more security. This helps the children to become more successful in their future relationships.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I combine mindfulness based therapy to help my clients with their emotional dysregulation. It is important to regulate our emotions in order to be able to think and act rationally to avoid adverse outcomes. I found that those who have experienced trauma in their childhood often find themselves to easily become emotionally dysregulated. As such, breathing and mindfulness techniques are essential to regulate and emotionally cope and serve important building blocks to other forms of therapy.