Hello, I am a Hispanic. bilingual (Spanish) LPC. I graduated with Bachelors Degree in Psychology in 2005 and a Masters Degree in 2017 from the University of Texas -RGV. I have worked in a mental health facility and an addiction center, but have been counseling remotely since the pandemic in 2020. I have extensive experience working with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger, career, and addictions. I would love to counsel you to become the best version of yourself.
In our first session we will introduce ourselves, we will discuss the questions you were asked to answer. Then I will determine with what you are struggling with and I will develop a treatment plan tailored specifically to address your issues.
Having counseled a wide range of clients with different issues and seeing them become better and happier versions of themselves because of the time and treatment I’ve provided is the best reward for me.
CBT is a talk therapy that can help people manage problems by changing the way they think and behave. CBT is based on the concept that thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and actions are all interconnected. Thus if these are negative they can trap a person into a negative cycle. CBT aims to deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive manner by breaking them down into smaller more manageable thoughts, feelings and actions.
Person-centered therapy is talk therapy where the client does most of the talking and the therapist listens with warm acceptance, respect, empathy, and unconditional positive regard, always taking into account a clients Bio/Psycho/Social/Cultural/LGBTQ criteria into account. The therapist
I will teach clients specific problem solving strategies including defining a problem, generate options to solve them, provide feedback, implement a plan, evaluate options and execute the plan.