Feeling ready to move past the trouble managing overwhelming symptoms stemming from past trauma including ongoing intense emotional dysregulation, unhealthy coping, relationships struggle, and severe negative self-beliefs.

These struggles are impacting your career, social life, and overall functioning in daily life and not sure what to do while feeling a desire for healing? Together, we will explore your specific issues, needs and goals in a safe, non-judgmental space, helping explore and understand you may have developed ways of coping that once served you but are now causing distress and how past events may impact your present.

Establishing a sense of safety and rapport, developing sustainable calming, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance using a combination of mindfulness, grounding techniques and psychoeducation. Challenge the negative self-narratives by changing negative self-beliefs rooted in past trauma.

Separate identity from experiences while fostering resilience. Life can be difficult at times. My goal is to providing compassionate care to inspire hope, growth, and peace through empowering lives and building resilience ensuring you feel empowered and in control throughout your healing journey. Please reach out to start focusing on your strengths and resilience, reintegrate your story transformation in life.

My approach to therapy: Feeling ready to move past the trouble managing overwhelming symptoms stemming from past trauma including ongoing intense emotional dysregulation, unhealthy coping, relationships struggle, and severe negative self-beliefs. These struggles are impacting your career, social life, and overall functioning in daily life?

What is EMDR: EMDR is an 8-phase treatment process.

1. History & Treatment Planning-

2. Preparation- Learning and practicing coping strategies (calming, relaxation, mindfulness, grounding)

3. Assessment- Identifying specific trauma to be processed along with negative and positive beliefs.

4. Desensitization- Implementing the rapid eye movement stimulation

5. Installation- instilling a positive belief to replace negative beliefs associated with past trauma

6. Body Scan- scanning for any residual body sensations connected to trauma- reprocessing if needed.

7. Closure- Closing session reinforcing resources.

8. Re-Evaluation- Accessing progress and determining if further processing is needed.

What is TF-CBT:

Phase 1: Stabilization

• Psychoeducation- trauma, effects, treatment process

• Relaxation

• Affect Modulation- Learning to identify, label and regulate emotions

• Cognitive Coping- challenging negative thoughts and beliefs associated with trauma and replacing with positive alternatives

Phase 2: Trauma Narrative & Processing

• Trauma Narrative- Re-telling the story with learning knowledge and skills implemented.

• In Vivo Mastery- Gradually challenging in safe real-world setting

Phase 3: Integration & Consolidation

• Conjoint parent and Child sessions-

• Enhancing Safety

What is CBT: Goal orientated approach

• Learning how thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors are interconnected and what impacts them.

• Challenging and replacing negative beliefs with more realistic positive alternatives

• Develop new skills thinking and coping to replace unhelpful patterns

• Self-regulation and coping

What is ACT: 6 core process

• Diffusion- loosening grip of unhelpful thoughts by looking at them as just thoughts rather than truths.

• Acceptance- Experiencing unhelpful thoughts, emotions and sensations without trying to avoid, control or change them.

• Present Moment- Using mindfulness to connect with here and now instead of past or future.

• Self-As-Context- Establishing sense of self as an observer separate from one’s temporary thoughts, emotions, and sensations.

• Values- exploring, identifying, and clarifying what is important and matters in your life to guide you

• Committed Action- Take self-driven steps aligned with values identified

What is attachment treatment:

• Focused on improving connections and relationships

• Building self-worth and trust

• Exploring past experiences and others’ responses to situations.

• Building a safe and secure bond