Individual Therapy for Adults and Young Adults
You have arrived at the right place!
This place is where we talk about you to find your voice, decrease unwanted symptoms, improve your quality of life, and get to know your authentic self.
In the session, our work will be psychodynamic. I am interested in how your past experiences, especially those that took place during your upbringing, affect how you relate to people today.
I see your symptoms (depression, anxiety, fear, excitement) as pieces of information we need to delve into so we can further understand what, why, how, and when in terms of what you are experiencing.
The goal of our work together is self-awareness, emotional healing, and for you to become the best version of yourself!
Let’s start cooking!
Ingredients:
5 cups of laughs
5 cups of tears
Tons of knowing how to talk. Either in English or Spanish or Spanglish;)
Tons of cooperative and curious attitude.
Tons of yearning to feel better/become better
Cooking Time
…of the session is 50 minutes, weekly or biweekly, depending on where you are in your healing process. Sessions can take place for a few months up to a year or more – until you feel like you accomplished your goals.
Cooking Instructions
…start with us talking together. If you know how to talk, you are more than halfway there. At the beginning of our sessions, I will ask, “What would you like to talk about today?”
The kitchen is yours – not mine.
I do not set the agenda. You decide what to discuss. The topics might include how you feel today, what happened this week that frustrated you, or how your sadness or anxiety manifested during the week. Relationships might be at the top of your list – with your significant other, caregiver, or best friend.
Sometimes, you might voice what brings you down, excites, or terrifies you. Those topics may be random thoughts or nightmares that go on forever without stopping.
Perhaps, you will want to talk about that dress or car you want to get, how work is, the thing you want to stop doing or do more of, your pet or pet peeves.
Anything you bring up during therapy will help you get to where you want to go and accomplish.
You are not alone in the kitchen.
Slowly but steadily, we will begin to understand your world, put into words what you are feeling, and understand your boundaries (both the ones that need elimination and the existing ones) and emotional walls. You will start to understand why those boundaries are in place, which ones you want to get rid of, and which ones you want to keep. We will begin to name your non-negotiables, wants, and needs and start practicing how to communicate them to those with whom you have a relationship.
We will start to delve into your traumatic experiences only if you are ready to talk about them. Together, we will deconstruct how those experiences affected you in the past and how they keep affecting you now.
We will use a metaphorical magnifying glass to examine your emotional wounds, reopening them by discussing how to disinfect and clean them for proper healing. As you can imagine, you might feel worse before you feel better, but the good news is that I have had over 1000 clients who felt better after our work together.
Don’t worry; I will be there supporting you throughout our sessions and your process. Please know that I have personal experience. Therefore, I will not ask you to do emotional work that I have not done myself. I have been in your shoes regarding the vulnerability and commitment it takes to go through it.
Also, keep in mind that each treatment will look a little different depending on your personal goals. Not one shoe fits all needs and types of problems. But what I just described is to give you an idea of how our work together will feel and look like to you.
Things start to gel.
After several sessions, you will feel differently, allowing you to express how you feel. As a result, you will feel less resentful of your family and friends because you are setting boundaries in your relationships and not giving more than you can provide.
The event that happened a few months ago that caused you to feel angry feels less critical now. Your relationship with your parents changed in a positive direction. You start getting out of bed to walk in the mornings, something you always wanted to do but didn’t. You engage in other self-care activities like painting, reading, or drawing.
Life is a little less dreadful, and the weight on your shoulders is beginning to feel more bearable. Your anxiety is not as overwhelming, and you are ok expressing those feelings contained for too long. You are now not only hearing your voice, but others are hearing it as well.
Here are some cooking tips.
Therapy can be scary, but don’t let fear stop you. Reach out to me and bluntly say, “This is scary. I don’t want to do therapy, but I want to stop feeling depressed.” And we will go from there and use that fear and transform it into emotional strength.
If money is an issue, still reach out to me and let me know your financial need/situation. If no sliding scale is available, I will do my best to connect you with an associate or trainee I trust who can offer a lower fee.
Be patient because you can acquire the best results when listening to yourself and your body.
Constantly bring up in therapy your treatment concerns and discuss more or less as you see fit. Deciding what to discuss is part of exercising your voice.
Recipes Vary
Each person’s goals are different, so treatment will follow what that person needs in therapy. Some people’s goals are to feel more and think less or vice versa. Achieving these different goals will require various levels of interventions, but I will always honor your goals, wants, and needs.
Therapy can be seasonal. You can come to therapy for a few months and then decide or feel that you are doing better and have accomplished your goals; if this is the case, you are more than welcome to stop therapy and take a break.
Then, a few months later, something that you want to process or discuss comes up. We can start therapy again.
Let’s start cooking! Please reach out to me. I am here for your development and hard work.