What do you think is the biggest barrier today for people seeking care?
People believe that therapy is a place where therapists solve problems. It is a place where therapists are effective listeners, teachers, that provide individuals with tools to empower themselves to live effectively in their community.
If there was one thing you wish people knew about the therapy experience who might be hesitant to try it, what would that be?
Therapy is a safe place where you can disclose your most intimate issues, but also a place to blossom and learn different techniques to empower yourself leading to advocating for yourself.
What would be important for someone to know about working with you?
Patience and perseverance to achieve empowerment.
Specialties
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.
Loss/Grief
Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.
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.
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
Work Stress
Workplace issues are a common source of stress and can include interpersonal conflict, communication problems, gossip, harassment, discrimination, low motivation and job satisfaction, performance issues, and poor job fit.
Loss/Grief
Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.
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.
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.
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.
In-Network Insurance
All Savers Insurance
Cigna
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
Oscar Health
Oxford Health Plans
Texas Blue Shield
United Healthcare
United Medical Resources
Fees
$130
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Coaching
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Positive Psychology
Reality Therapy
Pastoral & Faith Based Counseling
Training / Certifications
The University of the State of New York Education Department (Mental Health Counselor)
Licensure
NY, LMHC, 002873
Education
Master of Science in Education (Rehabilitation Counselor)
Work History
Provided bilingual (Spanish) psychosocial individual and group treatment to individuals that were diagnosed with mental illness in an outpatient psychosocial clubhouse program. I also worked with individuals that were diagnosed with a mental illness and substance abuse in a substance abuse community residence.
Location
Remote Therapist, New York, 11373, NY