I have over 20 years experience working in a forensic setting addressing a range of mental health issues that include anger management, psychosis, general anxiety, depression, and trauma related symptoms. I offer therapy using cognitive based interventions along with mindfulness strategies to manage mood symptoms and control negative thinking patterns. I also offer assertive communication techniques to help improve communication style between partners, family, friends, and workplace.

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

Getting to know you and making sure you get what you need is very important. For this to happen, an identified reason for the sessions along with treatment goals will be established. Expect to focus on this and to discuss other areas of your life where problem solving, critical thinking and reflection will be your practice on building insight. Subsequent sessions will review homework and/or other objectives that are mutually agreed tasks. Also, I like to provide a feedback rating scale after each session. This helps improve my ability and effort toward helping you get what you need.

What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?

I mostly rely on cognitive based interventions, mindfulness strategies and solution focused therapy. I also prefer to use a feedback instrument to help gauge each individual session to improve ongoing sessions and thereby meeting treatment goals.

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

My strength, I feel, is to make the most out of each individual session, because it's your time to work on yourself. I try to foster that in each meeting so that you leave with a sense of progress and/or insight that you can build upon.

About Albert Vasquez