About Me
I am a licensed Psychotherapist with more than 9 years of experience.
Do you have a child or are you an adolescents, adult, or family and have issues related to depression/anxiety, foster care/adoption, behavioral concerns, parenting, relationships/family issues, adjustment/transitions, trauma, spiritual issues or concerns, domestic violence, vocational counseling, co-dependency, guilt/ shame, woman issues, life purpose, relationship issues and multicultural problems? I have experience in counseling clients from diverse populations, and spiritual backgrounds. – Tambien hablamos Español…
Years in Practice
9 Years
License
New Jersey / 37PC00701600
New York State / 007833-01
Education
Nyack College AGSC -ATS (2013)
National Certified Counselor (NCC) and active member for the Association For Christian Counselors.
License No. and State: 007833-01 New York State- Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Individuals
Couples
Group
Types of Therapy
Christian Counseling
Compassion Focused
Culturally Sensitive
Culturally sensitive therapists provide therapy that is culturally sensitive.
Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
Supervision services are offered by qualified practitioners who provide feedback and expertise for less experienced professionals.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do.
Eclectic
Many practitioners take an eclectic approach to therapy, drawing upon various aspects of cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic methods to create their own custom-made approach.
Interpersonal
IPT is a short-term psychotherapy in which therapist and client identify the issues and problems of interpersonal relationships.
Multicultural
Multicultural awareness is an understanding and sensitivity of the values, experiences, and lifestyles of minority groups.
Family / Marital
Family and Marital therapists work with families or couples both together and individually to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the harmful or negative aspects.
Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
For clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and other health issues such as anxiety and depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behavior.
Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behavior.
Narrative
Narrative Therapy uses the client's storytelling to indicate the way they construct meaning in their lives, rather than focusing on how they communicate their problem behaviors.
Play Therapy
Generally for children ages 3 to 11, play therapy is a form of counseling that relies on play to help therapists communicate with children and understand their mental health.
Strength-Based
Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings.
Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a combination of play therapy and behavioral therapy for young children and their parents or caregivers.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Structural Family Therapy
Trauma Focused
Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
Person-Centered
Person-centered therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions
Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
Solution-focused therapy, sometimes called "brief therapy," focuses on what clients would like to achieve through therapy rather than on their troubles or mental health issues.