Imelda D

LPCC, 8 years of experience

Warm
Solution oriented
Open-minded
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I am a professional counselor with a combined 10 years of experience in educational counseling, psychotherapy, severe mental illness and psychiatric evaluations. Overall, I am a counselor, but as a person, my life experiences are what have influenced the different areas of counseling that I am involved in. I immigrated to this country at a young age and the experiences that I had as a student led me down the path of school counseling. I wanted children who were bilingual to have a positive experience in which they didn’t feel that their language barrier was equated to their general educational abilities. I grew up in an area that was plagued with poverty, drugs, homelessness. Where high school dropout rates, teenage pregnancy and early death due to gangs were amongst some of the many challenges that were faced daily. I became intrigued by the power of the mind and the resiliency that we as humans have. Wanting to understand people's behavior led me to study psychology and work in severe mental health. I had a desire not only to help, but to understand how we can be affected by our environment and overcome it, to know where our human resilience came from.

Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

The first session is all about information, both gathering information about you and what brings you to therapy as well as providing information to empower you to make an informed decision about entering the therapeutic relationship.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

My greatest strength as a provider is understanding that everyone is different and there is no one size fits all. Each journey is unique and needs to be tailored to each individual.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

Change happens when we are ready and curious enough to explore that deep feeling or “knowing” inside us. Change happens when we are open to trying to understand what is going on around us and within us. If you are ready to explore this, curious enough to wonder and open to trying to understand, then I am here to help you empower yourself to deal adequately with life situations and improve your mental health.

About Imelda D

I identify as

Specialties

Anxiety

Serves ages

Licensed in

Accepts

Address

3108 W Hammer Ln, Stockton, CA 95209

Appointments

In Person

My treatment methods

Eclectic

I use various psychotherapeutic techniques and counseling interventions to assist clients in acquiring coping skills, healthy mechanism, and appropriate tools to assist them in improving their mental health. I would say that my foundation is a Person-centered approach (Rogerian) sprinkled with some Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).