My Services
Family Therapy
I assist family relationships in healing by learning how to communicate and respect each other's boundaries. I educate my clients on assertive communication and implement family systems therapy techniques. I provide all clients with psychoeducation on the Fair Fighting Rules. I encourage its usage as guidelines in their daily communications with anyone they encounter, especially difficult relationships. I adjoin with the family, while empathizing with every family member in the room. I have over 15 years of experience in working with families of varied religions, ethnicities, and concerns. I am pride myself on keeping family members accountable, respectful, engaged, and honest in sessions. With my client and adolescent clients, family therapy is an imperative piece to the therapeutic process.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR is the most effective, transformative, and rapid trauma modality. Created at the end of Vietnam War by Fracine Shapiro, this evidence based, SAMSA and WHO endorsed technique has healed many clients I have and continue to work with. It is rooted in reframing traumas, phobias, and negative experiences to a more positive lens. I love being able to heal a client immediately through the use of this modality! Other implications include ADHD symptoms, grief, addiction, self-esteem, long Covid symptoms, and personality disorders.
The technique is covered by insurance, non-sedative, and must begin with preliminary assessments and grounding work.
Individual Therapy
Perhaps you're seeking individual therapy for the first time in your life, or you may be returning to your healing process. In our initial assessment, we will discuss your background and history, goals, expectations of therapy and individual needs and preferences. I educate clients on the evidence-based techniques that may offer the best results. I encourage clients to ask me any and all questions regarding my skillset, training, and therapeutic process. Individual therapy may be the only time of the week you can be yourself, vent, learn new skills, process current and past traumas, be free from judgment, but totally feel supported and validated! You are your best when you can put your mental health needs first.
Long Covid Treatment
I attended Robin Shapiro's Advanced Ego States Trainings, parts one and two, in March 2023. This course spoke provided training on the Poly Vagal theory. I learned how the vagus nerve, that runs from the brain to the abdomen, and how that can become inflamed or blocked when getting sick with Covid. It can further be exacerbated by stress and other contributing factors.
These learned techniques, combined with EMDR, have been the foundation to treat a variety of physical ailments. I sought out additional consultation with Lizy Wiggins, LCSW and EMDR consultant, to get further expertise in the curing long Covid symptoms. I learned and practiced treating loss of taste and smell from Covid with my clients. In just a few sessions, clients have reported smell and taste from none to 80 percent within several days from the onset of the first session.