Services
- Individual
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
Do you feel like you are struggling with grief, grief-related trauma, or anxiety? Most often we understand grief by the physical death of a person or the grief that comes with someone you know being terminally ill awaiting death. However, grief can be the loss of: a relationship, a career, a pet, a culture, and a hobby/interest. I am here to support you in treating grief and identifying solutions to improve your quality of life while honoring your cultural values and needs on your own pace.
My Background and Approach
I have extensive experience working with individuals and groups of diverse populations of all ages at an inpatient facility, addressing mental health needs such as trauma, anxiety, and depression. Guiding clients to understand and change unhelpful patterns. With empathy and humor, I draw from primary therapeutic modalities that include Person-Centered Counseling, Psychodynamic theory, DBT, CBT, Narrative Therapy, Existential theories, and other relational approaches. I will tailor my treatment to your specific goals and needs using an eclectic and integrative orientation. As your therapist, I am focused on assisting you to process past and/or present distress, increase self-awareness, establish meaningful relationships, become the narrator you want to be in your own story, and explore life's deeper meanings.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Talking about your mental health can be difficult for many, and some may not know where to begin. Proudly identifying as a Filipina-American, having conversations surrounding one’s emotions/mental health can be incredibly challenging due to the lack of focus on mental health and the stigma surrounding it. Therapy is a space where you can safely process and discuss thoughts, issues, or questions that have been consuming your emotional health and well-being. It is your time and your space. You do not have to be in a crisis to seek therapy. There are many factors and complexities that intersect to make you who you are. You define who you are and how you experience the world. Perhaps growth is learning when self-sufficiency is necessary and when to put down our badge of strength and reach across the middle space to invite others alongside us. Better yet, we can allow others to put us first for once.