SPECIALTIES/ESPECIALIDADES
HAVING A LOVED ONE WHO HAS AN ADDICTION
It could be your best friend, your husband, your girlfriend, your child or your parent. In other words, the addiction of your loved one is affecting your relationship with them. We rationalize, justify, deny, enable- but nothing seems to change. With therapy, you can learn to not let the effects ripple through your relationship with yourself as well.
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)
As you navigate the journey of not being sure if it is OCD symptoms that you are dealing with, or knowing what to do next after you have received a diagnosis, or you are a parent struggling with knowing how to help your child or teen with their symptoms, I can help support you with that. Having an OCD diagnosis myself, I can understand how rough it could get. I am trained in Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), and SPACE. While working with me, you can learn the appropriate coping skills to steer you in the right direction to address this.
SELF-ESTEEM
You might focus too much on your weaknesses and everything wrong with you. This could have begun in childhood and, somehow the message that you are not good enough is the one that stayed with you. Or you had a past traumatic experience that affected your feelings of self-worth. Or you have a pattern of believing others’ perceptions about you. Although we cannot change the experiences in our past, we can still do a lot to change our current and future thoughts and expectations of ourselves. How we perceive ourselves has everything to do with the choices we make in life. With therapy, you can learn how to make choices that will lead you to a successful life.