My Approach to Helping
When you don't believe you have a safe person to talk to, you can "hold" things in for a LONG time. You may talk to people, but not feel heard. This leads to personal "secrets," which leads to shame, which leads to anxiety and depression. I have over 20 years experience using evidence based practices such as CBT and EMDR to heal.
I encourage you to reach out on behalf of yourself! With a keen ability to understand and connect with people combined with the well rounded knowledge and experience of helping individuals heal and change painful emotional patterns, I'm able to offer you unique and well-informed integrative therapy to help you heal your mind, body, and spirit.
More Info About My Practice
As a bilingual Board Certified Diplomate with over 20 years of experience helping adults with anxiety, OCD and trauma (EMDR trained), I have also been successful helping women resolve reproductive and perinatal issues and parenting difficulties. Additional training in immigration evaluations.
We invite you to take a look now and learn more about us and how we may help you: https:inpsychcenter.com. Also currently accepting inquiries and registration for our virtual DBT skills group (https:inpsychcenter.comdbt-skills-group).
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
I work with clients who may be struggling with anxiety, OCD, trauma and relationship issues with an additional special focus on reproductive and perinatal challenges. Your first session will be a thorough intake assessment so that we can discover exactly what you need help with and make a plan with goals. Most clients start out weekly so that they can see positive changes in a timely manner.
How Psychotherapy Can Help
Psychotherapy can help first by helping you know that you are NOT alone, that you matter, and that you are understood. This is huge in a world of quick fixes and deep disconnect.
Second, psychotherapy gives you the opportunity to have someone with education, training, experience, and expertise who is not in your personal life work with you to identify and understand what you need to get out of pain and create the life that you want, whether it is in your personal relationships or the workplace, and then to guide you to achieve it.
Third, psychotherapy allows you to have time dedicated solely to you with the main purpose of helping you feel better, have better relationships, and meet the goals that you want to achieve.
My Therapy Focus
I use integrative, evidence-based practices based on the issues you need to address. In the first few sessions, we will determine what symptoms to prioritize. Oftentimes it's most helpful to use a combination of therapy types. I use CBT often - looking at your thoughtsbeliefs and how they affect your feelingsbehavior. I also use EMDR frequently to address past traumas or adverse events.
Why Going to Therapy Does Not Mean You are Weak or Flawed
So often people come in to the office saying that they had wanted to go to therapy a long time ago, but that they thought it was for "really messed up people." This is disappointing because nothing could be further from the truth. This perspective is guided (or misguided) by social stigma.
We love therapy! We love being the therapists and love being the clients in therapy!
The truth is that most people do not go to therapy or counseling or psychotherapy or whatever you want to call it because they are inherently flawed and sick. They go to therapy because they recognize the value in getting help from an educated, trained, and licensed mental health professional whose whole purpose is to assess, join, and help the person out of pain. This is not flawed or weak, but rather brave and smart.
We witness many, many people find their strength, wisdom, clarity, and emotional freedom during therapy. This is no coincidence.
