LP, 15 years of experience
New to Grow
Dr. Wuhib is a clinical psychologist who has been in the mental health field since 2001 when her first job entailed working with adults with chronic and severe mental illness to prevent repeated hospitalizations. She has since held various positions providing psychotherapy, consultation, as well as intelligence and diagnostic testing for children and adults. Dr. Wuhib uses a collaborative, outcome focused approach tailored to individuals' needs using cognitive behavior, psychodynamic, and mindfulness therapies that are trauma informed. Her special interests are chronic stress, anxiety, and complex relationship trauma and their impact on daily living.
The journey begins with a clear formulation of the problem defined within the context of the past or relevant experiences that can be used to understand the present challenges. Contextualizing the problem can help you increase your understanding and awareness, which itself can be transformative. Then, what follows are individualized strategies for your unique needs to obtain a resolution with long term gains.
What makes Dr. Wuhib's approach unique is the highly intuitive manner that the initial assessment is used to create an effective working model to resolve the problem rather than using a band aid approach of only looking at and treating the current symptoms. Also, having lived across three continents, in Ethiopia, London, and USA, she has developed sensitivity and awareness of the needs of various cultural and ethnic groups and tailors treatment based on their unique worldview.
Dr. Wuhib's approach is best for individuals who are seeking to resolve what is or has been keeping them stuck, for those not living up to their potential, and those seeking to play an active role in the therapeutic process in a collaborative and transformative manner.
CBT is enhanced as Trauma-Focused CBT to specifically target traumatic experiences both within the current or childhood setting. It is used to help identify the specific thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and somatic responses originally experienced that contribute to today's difficulties then process them so that there is release and promotion of living life more in the here-and-now.