What would be important for someone to know about working with you?
I often utilize a combination of therapies to best suit my clients. I like to incorporate a combination of theories, therapeutic modalities, and treatment interventions while providing therapy.
What are some the unique issues faced by clients in your particular field of specialization, in terms of mental health education, care, and/or treatment?
I have found that many individuals have difficulty with assessing, asserting, and respecting their own individual boundaries. This can lead to additional issues and often affect multiple areas of one's life..
What does a first session with you look like?
During the initial session, I like to get to know my client and for them to get to know me. The first session often incorporates talking about life history, discussing the reason's one sought out therapy, and defining one's goals for therapy.
Specialties
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.
Addiction
Regular involvement with a substance or activity in a compulsive, hard to control way that often has harmful consequences. Often refers to substance use, but can include compulsive behaviors such as sex, gambling, or shopping.
Codependency
Involves a person sacrificing their needs to meet the needs of others. Their thoughts and actions center on a significant other, spouse, friend, or relative. Becomes an issue when relationships are unbalanced and unhealthy.
Personality disorders
Personality disorders entail a maladaptive way of behaving, feeling, and thinking that deviate from societal and cultural norms. They may lead to personal distress, interpersonal issues, harmful behaviors, and legal issues. Personality disorders include paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. They are treatable but not curable.
General Expertise
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.
Anger management
It's normal to experience anger at times, but for some, it becomes so frequent, intense, or difficult to control that it negatively affects their life. Anger management is a structured therapeutic approach toward reducing one’s anger to a point where more appropriate coping and/or conflict management skills are used. Beliefs and thoughts leading toward anger outbursts are explored while healthy coping and interpersonal skills are put into practice.
Body image issues
Due to continued exposure to images of “normal” or “desired” body types, people can develop a range of positive or negative emotions about their appearance causing anxiety, depression, or eating disorders.
In-Network Insurance
Sana Benefits
Fees
$100
First Session
$150
Couples Therapy
$100
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Mindfulness Practices
Strength Based Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Coaching
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Systems Therapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Licensure
TX, LCSW, 60910
Education
Master of Social Work, Social Work, Our Lady of the Lake University
Work History
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 6+ yrs of experience at the Masterʼs Level; under the supervision of a Psychiatrist. I have experience with all populations including working directly with sex workers, persons with HIV/ AIDS, all persons affected by substance use, abuse, and addiction (including pregnant women and new mothers), and persons in the criminal justice system for offenses ranging from traffic citations and misdemeanors to capital and first degree felonies.
Location
Remote Therapist , San Antonio, 78253, TX