What excites you most about the evolving mental health landscape?
It is an amazing opportunity to provide therapy via tele-health. I commend you for reaching the decision to come to therapy. I hope to help you on this journey towards healing.
In what ways have your personal experiences influenced your work with your clients?
Personal experience is the reason I became a social worker. As I watched family members struggle with mental illness and find someone who cared, who would listen and advocate I found my passion in life. Really listening to people and helping them navigate through the difficult times has been my greatest mission. It is my hope to provide you with compassion and understanding because you matter.
What’s the most profound, insightful, or interesting thing you’ve learned as a mental health professional?
I heard it say that people come into our life for a reason. As I found myself on the receiving end of a therapy couch I discovered that there are two types of people; those in therapy and those that should be in therapy. Helping eliminate the stigma of mental health is of utmost importance. I hope to be a person who enters another persons life for the better. Working together to help you be your best self.
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.
Attachment issues
Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.
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.
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is a condition that is precipitated by a perceived terrifying event. This event need not occur directly to the person but may happen vicariously—having seen something terrible happen to another person. The condition may last months or years while symptoms include ruminating thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, intense anxiety when triggered, and potential substance abuse in attempt to cope.
General Expertise
Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by persistent instability in relationships, extreme emotional reactions, and chronic fear of abandonment. People with this may also tend to be moody, experiencing a lot of high highs and low lows.
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.
Child mental health
Children can be impacted by things like anxiety, depression, ADHD and more. However, they can be difficult to identify because kids aren’t always able to communicate effectively. Untreated, child mental health issues can have long-term effects.
Life coaching
Process designed to equip people with tools, motivation, and inspiration necessary to make positive change and maximize personal and professional potential. Life coaches are generally helpful during life transitions or for goal setting and completion.
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.
Fees
$75
First Session
$75
Family Therapy
$75
Couples Therapy
$75
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Family Session
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychoanalysis
Mindfulness Practices
Strength Based Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Person-Centered Therapy
Structural Family Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Licensure
NY, LMSW, 106342
Education
Adelphi University School of Social Work
Work History
My journey to becoming a therapist started on a personal level. It was through my own work in therapy that I decided to be on the other side as the one helping others. I approach therapy using a strength based, non judgmental and goal setting. Sliding scale available Payment via Venmo @Meghan-Soeiro
Location
Remote Therapist, Gilbertsville, 13776, NY