Maurissa Szilagi LCSW

Is that it doesn’t have to be a punishment or something you are forced to do. It can be of great benefit and healing power to many of us. I also use a validating and strengths-based approach often which provides each client a way to feel just a little bit better before they came to session.

What I have been through in my personal life, directly influences the way I choose to practice and how I am able to be genuine to each one of my clients. Additionally, with my lived experiences I can often connect and understand what a client has been through without them needing to talk in very specific details, being validated and truly understood in this work is very conducive to the healing process.

Yes, the theme I see a lot is that parents do not notice that the way they were responded to as a child directly relates to the way the get triggered or respond to their own child. Parenting magnifies are own experiences and may bring up things we aren’t realizing at the time.

• California, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, 102000

For the last ten years I have specialized in working with families that have had disconnected attachment histories. Additional, families in the midst of divorce, issues around difference in parenting style and expectations, and of most abundant the foster care and adoption population.