LCSW, 4 years of experience
New to Grow
Hello! I am Jenny, a native Floridian and graduate of the University of South Florida. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I am passionate about serving the underserved, and helping create real equity. I am trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy. I hope to bring warmth and ease to our sessions. I am ready to meet you where you are and work together to cultivate a life worth living.
At our first session, I am primarily looking to understand you and your preferences. I may support you in focusing the goals of therapy, if that is needed. I am aiming to learn about your expectations and I will share a bit about myself and my style of therapy to see if we might be the right fit for each other. I look forward to meeting you!
I believe my strengths are in building a relationship, understanding, validating and helping clients realize their goals. I utilize evidence-based modalities including Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method.
I am particularly focus on working with adults, especially those struggling with relationship issues. I am passionate about supporting my client's foster self-acceptance and validation, to improve boundary setting and communicate. It's my belief that relationships are vital for healthy living and unhealthy relationships can cause anxiety, depression, anger, poor coping, and general discontent with life. I enjoy individual work as I believe we have to be whole selves in order to be part of a healthy and prosperous relationship. I look forward to working with you individually, as a couple or family.
As a DBT trained therapist, DBT is at the root of and ubiquitous throughout my practice. I utilize more or less DBT depending on my individual client's needs and preferences. Some interventions we may use together are diary cards for data and accountability, mindfulness training for increased awareness of thought and behavioral patterns, and skills training to learn and implement value and goal directed behaviors.