What excites you most about the evolving mental health landscape?
Mental health is an ever changing field, I enjoy the changes that have taken place over the past decade. I appreciate how therapists and clients are no longer subjected to formal and monotonous therapy. Allowing tele-therapy has been especially helpful in ensuring that mental health services are more accessible to everyone.
What was your path to becoming a therapist? What inspired you to choose this profession?
My journey as a therapist began as an educator. As an elementary school teacher, I realized that many children lacked emotional regulation and coping skills. While often labeled as being children with behavioral issues, schools lacked the resources and structure needed to help them. Not only did the students struggle in this area, but I also found that they were merely mirroring the behaviors of their caretakers. Children with unresolved trauma grow into being adults who have difficulty functioning also. My goal is to help children and adolescents develop adaptive coping skills to navigate them through life because problems will always occur. I encourage my clients to understand that our emotions are not negative, it is the behavior that follows. I also strive to help adults cope with past experiences that influence current thinking and behavior patterns.
What is your style/approach to therapy?
I take on an Integrative approach to therapy. I believe that humans are ever changing which requires more than one modality.
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.
Abuse/Survivors of abuse
Abuse includes any significant mistreatment along the lines of psychical, emotional, sexual, verbal, and neglect. Survivors of abuse may experience negative thoughts and feelings, flashbacks, distrust of others, social withdrawal, self-harm, and increased likelihood of developing mental health and substance abuse issues.
Trauma
Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.
Women's issues
Women’s health is regarded as the holistic being and experience of being female. This extends beyond consideration for illness and other complex conditions but to general considerations of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Issues may include female oppression, socialized gender role, female reproductive issues, motherhood, body image, divorce, and substance use.
Coping Skills
Coping skills are tools and techniques one can learn, practice, and use to handle difficult emotions, decrease stress, and establish or maintain a sense of internal order.
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.
Academic challenges
Concerns that impact school performance or academic life. Can include perfectionism, bullying, financial stress, academic transitions, test anxiety, balancing school with other responsibilities, discrimination, or harassment.
ADHD
ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) causes a hard time focusing attention and controlling restless or impulsive behavior. People with ADHD might have emotional outbursts, be forgetful, and/or find it difficult to stay organized.
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.
Adoption & foster care
Adoption and foster care considerations include education on the process, integrating the new family, establishing household rules and boundaries, processing past trauma on behalf of the child, emotional health, and other adjustment procedures.
Fees
$120
First Session
$150
Couples Therapy
$120
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Children (5-12)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Integrative Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Reality Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Licensure
TX, LPC, 81779
Education
Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Work History
I have 6 years of experience as an educator and I have worked as a counselor since 2017. some of the areas of mental health I am experienced in are corrections/probation, children, adolescents, and men and women with a wide range of disorders.
Location
15355 Vantage Parkway W., 235, Houston, 77032, TX