I strive to help find relief and lasting change within even the first session or two. This begins with the very useful concept of two simultaneous paths when struggling in life... 1- How can clients ADDRESS, or take action to remedy or lessen, the sources of their struggles? 2- How clients COPE in effective healthy ways? Addressing and coping are central in my work and clients find this CBT approach to be highly valuable.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
I like to make sure the first session is about learning about each other. It's very important to understand a client's background, struggles, and goals. Also, it's certainly important for clients to know how I work therapeutically, know how I see their challenges and treatment plan, as well as know my expertise, tailored pace, and welcoming personability.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I used to be an educator and, with that mindset, I strive to make sure concepts of addressing and coping are understandable and retainable for the moment and for the future. This is so effective at enabling people to learn and grow. I'm also skilled in making sure clients know that they are understood, that there is a clear therapeutic process, that we will work for continuity from session to session, and that we clearly gauge progress along the way.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is a best-practice highly effective contemporary “talk therapy” where there is an effort to find beneficial ways of thinking (cognition) and taking action (behavior) to contend with mental health distress. CBT greatly helps to get more effective at addressing sources of distress as well as amassing and using healthy coping strategies.
Trauma Informed Care
Being trauma informed is to understand how various levels of adversity in one's life has been detrimental and has contributed to poor mental health . This approach serves to improve insight and approaches to counter and contend with the harms of all sorts of trauma in life.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
It is very important in therapeutic work to access and retain understanding of our mentality, needs, and effective healthy approaches. Mindfulness practices are integral to being able to better understand ourselves and steer ourselves toward an improved and uplifted direction in our lives.
Positive Psychology
Positive psychology works to assist individuals in thriving and not merely getting out of distress. These approaches can primarily be in efforts for healthy effective coping measures such as via gratitude, savoring, generative interactions toward others, and rejuvenating experiences in nature.
Attachment-based
Much of our mentality, disposition, and abilities to meet our own needs can be traced back to how well we psychologically attached to caregivers from our youth. Understanding our attachment styles can be vital to correcting attachment ruptures from the past and improve our ability to manage emotions, get our needs met, and soothe our distress.
2 ratings with written reviews
April 15, 2025
Eric was very attentive and interested in understanding not only what I had to say but how I was feeling. He worked well at trying to collaborate with me on finding helpful and practical solutions to the issues I brought up during our sessions.
March 25, 2025
Diilio is a great listener and gives clear, grounded advice.