Raquel Gonzalez
Raquel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been providing mental health services for the past 8 years. Overall, she has 15 years of experience in the social work field. Raquel has worked in several settings such as child welfare, mental health agencies, and in the public school setting as a school social worker. Raquel's experiences have provided her with skills and tools to understand the needs of her clients. On a personal note, she has been married for 15 years and is the mother of 4 children.
Raquel has worked in several settings such as child welfare, mental health agencies, and in the public school setting as a school social worker.
First session
The first session with Raquel would be to discuss the reasons of seeking therapy and to further assess the client's needs. It will also be an opportunity to set a comfortable and healthy therapeutic relationship, discuss goals, confidentiality, and decide on the best therapeutic model for the client. Raquel strongly believes that therapy promotes healing and growth.
Strengths
Raquel's greatest strength is her compassionate heart and ability to connect with clients facing difficulties. Her therapeutic approaches and methods give the opportunity to clients to express their needs, desires and personal goals. It is important to Raquel to create a safe environment for clients to grow in their confidence and reach their therapeutic goals. Raquel's clients report improvement in their overall well being during and after receiving mental health services.
Ideal clients
Raquel's ideal client would be experiencing grief, feeling overwhelmed with life situations, depression or anxiety. In addition, Raquel may provide support to clients going through a life changing event such as a career change, getting married, becoming a parent or facing divorce.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Raquel uses the CBT method in her practice with the objective of providing structure to clients who are experiencing depression and anxiety. This method helps the client to identify coping strategies and to regulate their emotions. In addition, it gives them an understanding of the relationship between negative thoughts and their behavior.
Humanistic
Raquel utilizes the humanistic approach with clients. This approach focuses on understanding people as a whole which includes their emotions, spirituality and physical well being. In addition, this approach gives the opportunity to focus on the individuals potential, self esteem and overall growth. The key concepts to explore in this treatment method is exploring free will, self actualization and holistic views.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- CaliforniaLicense 77732