Hello. I am Linda and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. I graduated with a Masters of Science degree in counseling psychology in 2011 from California Baptist University. I have been practicing in Riverside for about 12 years. I have worked with people from 5 years old to 82 years old, couples and individuals, families, premarital couples, and from different walks of life. Many people that I have worked with have experienced different degrees of healing with a new hope for their future ability to cope and apply new ideas and tools learned in therapy.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session we will get to know each other a little bit and then begin the process of exploring your expectations and goals for therapy. We will also begin with where you are at, where you have been in the healing process, and where you want to be. We will create a plan for therapy and decide how to approach your healing process.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Working with the people I have worked with in the past several years, I have a lot of respect for people who desire to conquer their issues and do the difficult work. Using the past as lessons to strengthen their future with more tools, new perspectives and new behaviors. I am a direct person who speaks the truth in love and never pushes a person to do what they do not want to do. I respect others boundaries. Having been through many difficult experiences in my life, I too have had to overcome trauma, poor choices, anger, depression and anxiety. My personal beliefs in God and the Bible strengthen me and give me the hope that my clients will be able to overcome the difficulties that seem so big and sometimes impossible to deal with.