Paola Tarragona LMHC

Our first session will address and assess your intake forms and all the information you include about yourself and your life. We will identify what is currently working for you, as well as identify the maladaptive patterns of thinking and behaving that are hindering your ability to be the version of yourself. I will provide a safe space for you to allow you to speak freely in a nonjudgmental environment. I like also to help the clients build coping skills, identify triggers, and early warning signs, work on awareness and create an action plan as part of treatment goals. We work collaboratively in creating these treatment goals to help the client reach their potential during therapy.

I believe through a holistic, integrative and eclectic counseling approach, individuals can achieve a healthy balance in life. I use different techniques that nurture self-awareness, empowerment, personal growth and emotional healing. I use evidence-based practices like EMDR (works by stimulating the brain in ways that lead it to process unprocessed or unhealed memories), CBT(a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave), Solution-focused therapy (is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems), mindfulness and others.

• Florida, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MH15584