What does a first session with you look like?
We will spend time getting to know each other. We will introduce ourselves, establish your needs and gather information. I will need to know why you're seeking therapy. I may ask you the following questions: What are your reasons for coming to therapy. What are your concerns. What do you want to get from therapy. Do you have a history of mental health issues.
What is your style/approach to therapy?
I provide Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy strategies, and Client-Centered therapies to allow clients to express themselves and identify solutions to problems using their own strengths and skills. We will able to use difference approaches which is best for your concerns.
What do you think is the biggest barrier today for people seeking care?
The lack of coverage for behavioral and mental healthcare. The cost of mental healthcare often limits access to therapy services. The lack of financial resources can lead to inconsistent or inadequate treatment.
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.
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.
Stress
Distress stems from a subjective perception of something being unwanted, undesirable, or detrimental to your wellbeing. Excessive stress significantly impairs mental and physical health and is associated with many diseases and conditions.
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.
General Expertise
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.
Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety or social phobia is fear of social situations or a fear of interacting with people other than close friends and family. Social anxiety can be persistent, intense, and debilitating, greatly affecting daily life.
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.
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.
In-Network Insurance
Aetna
Optum
United Healthcare
United Medical Resources
Fees
$150
First Session
$150
Family Therapy
$150
Couples Therapy
$100
Individual Therapy
Clientele
Parents
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Seniors (65+)
Children (5-12)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness Practices
Strength Based Therapy
Art Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Training / Certifications
LMHC Florida 9907
Licensure
FL, LMHC, MH9907
GA, LPC, 011745
Education
Master of Science: Mental Health Counseling, Nova Southeastern University
Work History
I have experience counseling couples, children, adolescents, adults, and families. I have also been able to speak about managing stress in the workplace. Specialties: Depression, Behavioral Issues, Marital and Premarital Issues: Addiction, Anger Management, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Career Counseling, Child or Adolescent, Chronic Impulsivity, Codependency, Coping Skills, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Dual Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Grief, Infertility, Life Transitions, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Parenting Peer Relationships, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Spirituality, Suicidal Ideation, Trauma and PTSD, Women's Issues
Location
7643 Gate Parkway Suite 104, Jacksonville, 32256, FL