Roxana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families in a supportive, empathetic, and solution-focused environment. Roxana's journey to becoming a therapist began during her own experience in therapy. While navigating personal challenges, she discovered her profound empathy and nonjudgmental nature. Her therapist poignantly remarked that she would be doing the world a disservice if she did not pursue a career in therapy. These words resonated with Roxana, igniting her passion for helping others. Specializing in relationship issues, life transitions, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Roxana is dedicated to helping her clients navigate challenges, build stronger relationships, and cultivate healthier emotional well-being.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, I will spend time answering any questions you may have about the therapeutic process and get to know one another better in order to establish a sense of safety and begin establishing a strong therapeutic alliance. Special attention will be paid to the specific concerns that have brought you to therapy in preparation for collaborative goal-setting.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I put myself in the shoes of my clients in order to truly understand their concerns and where they are coming from. I place a great amount of respect on the lived experiences of my clients and encourage them to actively participate in the therapeutic process. I strive to create a welcoming and comforting environment, ensuring that every client feels safe to explore their thoughts and feelings.
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621 NW 53rd St, Boca Raton, FL 33487, Suite 125 Office 20Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Structural Family Therapy
Structural Family Therapy (SFT) is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the interaction patterns and hierarchy within the family, and how these dynamics can influence behavior and emotional well-being. In my practice, I use SFT to assess the structure of the family by understanding the roles each member plays, help families recognize unhealthy interaction patterns, implement strategies to improve communication and reduce conflict, and strengthen relationships through collaborative goal-setting.
Attachment-based
Attachment Based Therapy (ABT) is used to help individual and families improve their emotional bonds and ability to effectively connect with others by assessing clients' attachment styles, allowing clients to explore their emotions and experiences without judgement, identify how early attachment experiences are contributing to current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, identifying problematic patterns in their relationships that stem from their attachment styles and traumatic experiences, increase emotional regulation skills, and increase mindfulness and self-awareness to create secure attachments.
Family Therapy
Family Therapy is used to help families address and resolve various issues that affect their functioning and relationships. In my practice, emphasis is placed on improving communication, strengthening bonds, increasing understanding of one another, and addressing problems such as conflict, trauma, and behavioral issues. Several therapeutic models of Family Therapy are utilized in my private practice including Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Bowenian Family Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. The overall goal when utilizing Family Therapy models is to improve coping skills, set and maintain healthy boundaries, increase pro-social communication, and encourage empathy amongst family members.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment approach for treating a variety of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, PTSD, addictive disorders, and more. In my practice, CBT is utilized to help individuals recognize and replace negative thought patterns that exacerbate emotional distress. I will collaborate with you on goal-setting and assist you with recognizing, challenging, and replacing irrational or negative thought patterns in order to reduce symptomology and distress. Psychoeducation will be provided on common cognitive distortions, and tools to manage stress.
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling can be tailored to address specific issues that are creating tension or distress in romantic relationships including infidelity, sexual intimacy issues, parenting or family issues, and financial stress to name a few. In my practice, Couples Counseling involves exploring the role of past experienced and how these are impacting the relationship, healing from past hurts within the relationship to foster healing and understanding, exploring unmet emotional needs to strengthen emotional intimacy, and identifying healthier ways to communicate unmet needs to one's partner. I employ several different couples therapy modalities in my practice including Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Couples, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Behavioral Couples Therapy depending on the couple's specific issues, goals, and preferences.