Hello, I am a licensed professional APN, PMHNP-BC, who practice in New Jersey. I studied in Walden University in Minnesota. I have worked with people who have challenges with mental health for a long time. Presently I treat patients who have challenges with depression, anxiety, ADHD, mood disorder, substance use disorder, schizophrenia, insomnia, eating disorder etc. Using medication management and psychotherapy these individuals can live to their full potentials.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
When I meet you for the first time, the session will be introduction, and we will draw an individualized plan that will help us tackle the specific challenges you are having. In the follow up sessions, the plan will be specific to you.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked with individuals with mental health challenges for a long time, we will work together and tailor your treatment specifically to you and we will get the maximum result.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I love working with and seeing clients who come from the street with no hope, but after therapy they are able to go back to live a fulfilled life.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is an effort to change thinking patterns. Helping an individual to learn and recognize his/her distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality. Using problem solving skills to cope with difficult situations. Helping individuals to learning ways to develop a greater sense of confidence in their own abilities. Using role play to handle a problematic situation. Helping individuals to face their fears instead of avoiding them. Learning to calm one's mind and calm one's body.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
DBT strategies include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, self-care, validation, and radical acceptance. Mindfulness enhances self-awareness and present-moment focus, while distress tolerance provides tools to manage discomfort and crisis. Emotion regulation focuses on identifying and managing intense emotions effectively. Interpersonal effectiveness teaches skills for maintaining healthy relationships, and self-care emphasizes the importance of taking care of oneself. Validation involves recognizing and affirming one’s feelings, and radical acceptance encourages embracing realities without resistance.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing is a counselling method that involves enhancing a patient's motivation to change by means of four guiding principles, represented by the acronym RULE: Resist the righting reflex; Understand the patient's own motivations; Listen with empathy; and Empower the patient. When patients understand which behavioral stage they are in—as well as their hesitancy or readiness to change their behavior—they are better positioned to not only find the motivation to change but to maintain that motivation.